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BUTLER COLLEGE 

IN THE 

WORLD WAR 

A Record of the Men and Their Achievements 

Together With a Briefer Record of Those 

Who Served in the Civil War and in 

THE War with Spain 

By 
KATHARINE MERRILL GRAYDON 

Professor of English Literature 
Butler College 



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THIS EECORD IS HERE MADE FOR THE 
PURPOSE OF COMMEMORATING IN 
PERPETUITY THE HONORED NAMES 
OF BUTLER COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO 
BORE PART IN THREE WARS 



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Then hail to all "who gave us 
Their might of arm and soul, 

Hot and athirst to save us, 
To heal, and keep us whole. 

— William Watson 



We saw not clearly nor understood. 

But yielding ourselves to the master-hand. 

Each in his part as best he could. 

We played it through as the author planned. 

— Alan Seeger 



When we return to our country we shall do so empty- 
handed; we shall take nothing back but the ashes of 
our dead. 

— An American Officer 



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FOREWORD 

On the miniites of the annual meeting of the Butler 
College Alumni Association of June, 1918, occurs the 
statement, ''Miss Graydon was appointed to compile 
the record of Butler College students in the present 
war. ' ' 

That was a sacred task committed to the secretary 
of the association. At once her efforts began and with- 
out cessation they have continued to date. The labor 
has met compensation in offering opportunity to know 
more largely than otherwise possible the deeds of But- 
ler soldiers, their attitude of mind and their force of 
character. It has been lessened by the delightful coop- 
eration of many of the boys. But in the effort to make 
correct and complete the list of graduates and former 
students of the college who had participated in the war, 
it has been difficult. There are, doubtless, unmen- 
tioned names which would have appeared in the record 
could they have been located. From the known Butler 
service men, it has been impossible to secure at all 
times replies to letters of inquiry; and frequently the 
innate modesty of the young men themselves has 
caused reticence. So, with unsparing effort, this 
volume is only as complete as the editor, in face of 
opposing obstacles, could fashion it. It is hoped in 
the years to come some secretary of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation may bring the undertaking to perfection. 

The story of the part Butler College played in the 
World War is not different from nor above that of 
other colleges. But we are proud of our Alma Mater 

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FOREWORD 

and wish to help perpetuate her spirit in time of sore 
need, to show what she offered and what her sons 
gained in the serving. They were men of that goodly 
company impelled by a high idealism to give their 
utmost for peace and love, yet sought they neither 
recompense nor praise. Near eight hundred offered 
all they had to their country and their God. Six fell on 
the field of honor ; eight died in home camps ; two from 
effect of overseas duty; while many will walk through 
life with health impaired. 

The record of these yomig men is the richest bequest 
Butler College has received since the days of the 60 's 
when other youths just as high-hearted, just as loving- 
of-life, just as promising-of-usefulness, left her halls to 
shoulder arms. If it serve, therefore, in any way to 
keep in remembrance their bright presences, it has ful- 
filled its purpose. 

Some of the letters of Chapter II have appeared in 
the Butler Alumnal Quarterly of the years 1918 
and 1919; also, the account contained in Chapter 
III. These letters were not intended for publica- 
tion, and it is with hesitation that they are now pre- 
sented. They are all personal, written, in the main, 
to a friend they left in the college. The only excuse for 
their appearance is the unconscious expression they 
hold of the spirit of the boys — a spirit too fine not to 
be shared with other members of our college family. 
It must be remembered that these letters were written 
often on scraps of paper by tired soldiers in the dim 
light of barracks, in dugouts, by the roadside, or in the 
hospital; in the weariness of waiting or in sound of 
death. Close censure prohibited much actual informa- 
tion ; but heart and soul are in them. Time and space 
have limited the selection to those at hand. 

Chapter V contains the enrolhnent of one hundred 

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eighty-four students whose record in the Civil War 
the college now possesses. Little is known of them 
other than the one sacrificial act — enough to immor- 
talize. They helped to save their — and our — countrj^ 
and in so doing they helped to make possible, sixty 
years after, the saving of civilization. A list is also 
made of those Butler men known to have volunteered 
in the Spanish-American War. They offered as much, 
their purpose was as high, as those of the other wars. 
To the students and college friends who have kindly 
assisted with the preparation of this record by furnish- 
ing information, by lending pictures and by offering 
grateful suggestions, I acknowledge my indebtedness. 

K. M. G. 

Butler College 
1922 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I Butler College if Wartime .... 1 
II Glimpses of the War in Letters and 

Diaries of Butler Men 29 

III Soldiers' and Sailors' Day .... 156 

IV Our Dead 212 

V Butler College in Earlier Wars . . . 236 

VI The World War Record 244 



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BUTLER COLLEGE IN THE 
WORLD WAR 

CHAPTER I 

Butler College in Wartime 

the civil war 

Butler College was cradled in struggle. Her found- 
ers were of those who had hewn their State out of 
Indian territory; had created farm-lands out of dense 
forests, towns out of regions unknown to the white 
man; had fought malaria, loneliness, poverty. The 
Puritan ideals of faith in God, faith in man, faith in 
work, had inspired these pioneers of the new West to 
build broadly for the powers which educate. Intelli- 
gence they knew to be a moral obligation in the de- 
veloping and strengthening of the young Democracy. 
With a public school system established by Caleb Mills, 
Calvin Fletcher, Henry P. Coburn, in the small grow- 
ing capital of Indiana, the insistent need of a higher 
school of learning for the vicinity and the farther 
northwest so impressed the mind of Ovid Butler and 
his co-workers, men of vision and of courage, that 
eventually there appeared in visible form, beautifully 
seated upon wooded land in northern Indianapolis, 
the Gothic structure known as the Northwestern 
Christian University. 

The university opened its doors in 1855 to all stud- 
ents of whatever race, sex, locality, desirous of a 

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2 BUTLER COLLEGE 

college education — a broad conception based upon the 
lines of freedom and justice. This institution, the 
second of its standing to admit the negro, the second to 
have a woman upon its facult}^ among the first to 
admit women upon equal standing with men, the first 
to graduate a woman from its classical course, was 
established with no shght struggle. But the college 
soon assumed fair proportions despite physical limita- 
tion and nurture in the years of bremng war. Char- 
tered upon the principle that all men are born free and 
equal, she entered at an early age into the conflict for 
human freedom. Her founders, who as pioneers had 
fought the wildness of the West, had also, as sons of 
Eevolutionary heroes, fought in their untried under- 
taking for justice and for liberty. Their spirit per- 
meated the work of their hands and their heart and 
natural it was when in 1861 the call for volunteers went 
forth that the students of the University, sons of 
struggle and trained in the elemental belief of individ- 
ual freedom, should mth the buoyancy of eager youth 
answer the grim call. 

During the years of the Civil War there went from 
the school mature men and mere boys — in all, one hun- 
dred and eighty-four students of whom record is in 
college possession. On the march and the bivouac 
and the battlefield, these untrained manly youths did 
their full part. They knew the awfulness of fighting. 
Their costly blood sprinkled the soil of Virginia, Ten- 
nessee, Kentucky. At Shiloh or the Wilderness, Vicks- 
burg or the Atlanta Campaign, some fell. Others died 
in camp or after reaching home unable to mthstand 
the effects of cruel war. 

A bronze tablet in the college chapel memorializes 
the names of these immortal youths who laid down 
their lives to preserve the Union. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 

1861 Sacred to the Memory 1865 

of Patriot sons of Alma Mater 

They died for cause aligned to God's endur- 
ing purpose who half -hundred years ago gave 
up sweet life to save our country from dis- 
union; for by their blood America was ran- 
somed — ransomed and reunited and stronger 
made to stay mad ruin's rush that, but for 
them, in day that was to come, had over- 
whelmed the world. 

Of these our brothers were, whose names 
we here enshrine, acclaiming now the virtue 
of their lives, the valor of their deeds, the 
sacrificial death they died — the while. Oh 
Heart Compassionate, Thou shalt Avith us 
deplore the stern decree that banished them 
from world of ours ere they had lived to see, 
as we toda}^, the greater glory of the land they 
loved — and which they died defending. 

Thurston C. Challen John L. Doyal 

George B. Covington Joseph R. T. Gordon 

Marion Elstun Perry Hall 

George J. Frenyear Rufus Harper 

Squire Isham Keith Marshall P. Hayden 

James L. Neff Piatt J. Squire 

Albert J. Danforth, Jr. Jesse W. Tilford 

Samuel A. Dunbar George P. Vance 

Addison M, Dunn Jacob Varner 

In flush of youth and pride of early man- 
hood died they. Peace to their ashes. And 
may this record enduringly remain to here 



BUTLER COLLEGE 



attest the \artue of true manhood, the noble- 
ness of patriotic devotion. 

— Butler Alumni Association, 1921 



Struggle was thus in the air and the spirit to 
throttle wrong in the very life-blood of the student 
body. Wisdom was justified of her children. 

The Spanish-American War 

The second call to arms came in 1898, and again 
Butler College was not lacking in the spirit of personal 
responsibility and of patriotic sacrifice. Of the early 
Indiana Volunteers, the Twenty-Seventh Battery of 
Light Artillery was commanded by Captain James B. 
Curtis, '80, in which were enlisted other Butler men. 
This battery — organized August 8, 1882, designated as 
Batter}^ A, First Artillery, Indiana National Guard, 
out of wliich was formed the famous One Hundred and 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-Second division, of the 
World War — was the only organization of Indiana 
Volunteers sent during the war to the enemy 's country. 
It landed in Porto Rico, had reached the firing-line, 
was ready for action, when the word of Spain's over- 
tures of peace to the United States Government 
arrived and hostilities ceased. The Twenty- seventh 
Batter}^ enrolled April 26, 1898, returned to Indianap- 
olis the early part of autumn, September 25th, and 
after a two month's furlough, was mustered out No- 
vember 25, 1898. Despite the ravages of fever and the 
evils of unpreparedness, no Butler man lost his life. 

The brevity of the combat, its distant field of action 
and easy victory made a war less spectacular and less 
tragic than the war of the 60 's; but the cause of hn- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 5 

manity and of national honor did not fail of appeal to 
the responsive academic youth of the country. 

The World War 

When the story of the part America played in the 
Great War shall have been written, glorious will be the 
chapter upon the participation of the colleges. It may 
be that the youth of every land in the days of Arms 
and the Man sees visions and holds true to ideals. It 
is difficult, however, to believe there is any manhood 
like our own, and we can not but think that the gal- 
lantry we have known and loved is an American gal- 
lantry peculiar to the lads of our free race. If the 
spirit of Chivalry had ever seemingly disappeared 
from the boys of recent decades, it was a misreading 
of student nature. When in the Spring of 1917 the 
trumpets blew and the horizon broadened, the great 
ages were reborn before our eyes; and no Raleigh or 
Sidney or Gilbert ever went to death with a lordlier 
heart than those young men upon whom the end of the 
world was to come. The Butler boys, like St. George, 
that great knight of God who rode out in the olden time 
to kill the dragon which had been devouring women and 
little children, sprang to the defense of what is just 
and true and holy. And no finer thing can be said of 
men than that they defended justice and truth and 
righteousness. 

In 1917 Butler College is again engaged in a contest 
for human liberty and life. She has never been belli- 
gerent, but she has never hesitated to fight for right. 
In a third time so eagerly answering the call to arms, 
she simply incarnated the virtue and the hope of her 
founders. 

In the Spring of that fateful year she seemed little 



6 BUTLER COLLEGE 

different from that she had been in other decades : the 
aspect of the old buildings, of the scattered playfields. 
of the loved trees, was unaltered from preceding 3^ears. 
Material environment was placidly holding its own. 
Yet there was a change upon the campus, a real change 
which comes but seldom and then only because of a 
disturbance in the hearts of men. One felt it in the 
air, or caught its echoes even before he had reached 
the campus. A new force, spiritual yet dynamic, was 
making cheeks glow and pulses beat more rapidly. 
With the zeal which animates human nature in strug- 
ghng for a righteous cause, the students were prepar- 
ing themselves for the mightiest conflict of time. The 
fate of our country — the fate of the world — was to rest 
on just such boys as these. 

A study of school psychology from August 1914 to 
April 1917 shows a steady growth of mental and spir- 
itual preparation for great events to come. Interest 
was manifested in what was happening far away as 
interest is manifested in the happenings of the distant 
past. The first fighting on the Mame, on the Somme, 
about Verdun, was thrilling, but it in no wise touched 
the life of Butler College. Classroom work progressed 
with little change. Academic activities were undis- 
turbed. Public sentiment was divided. On the faculty 
had been friendly German professors, while others had 
studied in that land of culture; in the student body 
were many of Teuton birth or descent whose love for 
fatherland resented the press reports. In accordance 
with the terms of President Wilson's proclamation of 
August 18, 1914, a seeming neutrality in all gatherings 
of work and play was for a while preserved. But Prus- 
sian atrocities, Belgian agonies, and French sacrifices 
were increasing influences on the college thought and 
sympathy in favor of France and the Allied cause. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 7 

When, on May 7, 1915, the torpedoed ^'Lusitania" 
carried to their death one hundred fourteen American 
men, women and children, the country knew there was 
no further honorable withholding from war. Butler 
boys knew it. The agitation for preparedness began. 
There had previously been no military training on the 
campus. Through athletic sports the boys had learned 
the martial virtues of courage, patience, obedience, 
endurance. Now as to compulsory military training 
mixed feeling existed among the faculty, the students 
and their parents. Open and sharp argument found 
expression in gatherings, in the halls, and through the 
college press, as to whether required training was fol- 
lomng in the steps of militaristic Germany and a trend 
backward; or whether there was a wise preparedness 
demanded by the time. The Butler Collegian of Febru- 
ary 14, declared: ''Preparedness is the keynote of the 
nation. Every loyal American is ready for his coun- 
try's call. We Butler students can best demonstrate 
our patriotism by preparing ourselves for any event- 
uality. ' ' 

A Freshman wrote* : "It is contended that univer- 
sal training is undemocratic. It is not. Under a volun- 
tary system do you think it democratic when an enthu- 
siastic bricklayer trains while an effete butterfly 
dances? Should a struggling student learn military 
tactics while a corpulent capitalist practices monetary 
tactics? No. Universal training is essentially and 
absolutely democratic. It includes rich and poor, high 
and low. Switzerland, probably the most democratic 
nation in the world, has had universal training for 
years, and, as a result, can turn out as high a percent- 

♦Kenneth V. Elliott, '21, who sealed his words with his blood at 
Chateau-Thierry. 



8 BUTLER COLLEGE 

age of trained men as tyrannized and militaristic Ger- 
many. Australia, undoubtedly the most democratic 
commonwealth of any kingdom, has adopted in a modi- 
fied form the S\viss system of universal training, which 
is neither inconvenient nor oppressive. 

Therefore, let us support this resolution as a unit 
Let the esprit de corps of Butler be liberty, 

LOYAX-TY, LOVE OF COUNTRY." 

On March 3, at a meeting of the men of the college, 
a declaration in favor of temporary compulsory uni- 
versal military training was carried by a large major- 
ity. When on April 1 a squad of seventy men began 
to drill on Irmn Field under Captain Hurt at 6:30 
a. m. and at 3:30 p. m., Butler was in the movement 
pioneer among Indiana colleges. 

To the declaration of war upon April 6, 1917, the 
youth of the land unhesitatingly responded. No con- 
scription law was needed to bring college men into 
battle. They had thought, they had talked, they had 
measured the cost. They had flung away their idols and 
had met God. Their willingness to accept duty and to 
sacrifice themselves seemed part of some high secret 
religion of their own. These boys had nothing to gain 
from the war, except their own souls. They had every 
thing to live for. 

With the opening of the first Officers' Training 
Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, on May 15, the 
college halls were almost depleted of upper classmen. 
Proudly, Butler bade Godspeed to her manly sons. 
The seriousness of the situation had not forced itself 
upon the minds of even the older people of the college. 
Modern warfare was too terrible to be long-continued ; 
the fighting was still three thousand miles away. Fort 
Benjamin Harrison was not far-distant; the boys were 



IN THE WORLD WAR 9 

scarcely out of sight, and, khaki-clad, with soldierly 
bearing, a fine light in their eyes, brought assurance 
and aroused pride as they weekly returned to their 
Indianapolis homes. A visit to the camp was thrilling 
and inspiring. One came away with a clearer, broader 
idea of what the nation was doing in its effort to 
defend the principles upon which it was founded. The 
drill of thousands of sturdy, trained, bronzed, young 
men swinging past the reviewing officer, the breaking 
up into groups to meet friends, or the gathering with 
families for a picnic supper, or the promenading the 
parade ground in snatched moments with those in 
bright array, made a scene to linger in memory. The 
experience was new and exhilarating. The fineness of 
war spirit was there without its rigor and its danger. 

After twelve weeks of training in which raw recruits 
had been shaped into impressive disciplined units of 
khaki-clad soldiers, healthy, vigorous, intelligent, filled 
with enthusiasm, ready to make for the flag the ulti- 
mate sacrifice, if necessary, the first camp broke up, 
and the boys, now chiefly second lieutenants, were scat- 
tered throughout the land for further training and 
more earnest service. The aspect grew more serious 
as in the departure for distant camps they set out for 
the great unknown of war. 

Had there been one unit composed of Butler men, 
there would be small difficulty in following their pro- 
gress either abroad or at home; but, trained in many 
camps, assigned to various divisions, ordered for 
service to separate regions, it would be tracing the 
action of several hundred individuals were the effort 
made. However, a classification, though imperfect, is 
attempted. 



10 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Service Over Seas 

In June, 1917, began the great movement of trans- 
porting the American troops to France. Butler men 
were in the divisions earliest to cross and among those 
first to undergo training in the Gondrecourt Area, the 
Baccarat Sector, the Toul Sector, the Saumur Artillery 
School, and were a part of that huge educational 
system whereby newly-arrived divisions might receive 
instruction in the latest developments of the art of 
war and thus be transformed into combat divisions 
worthy to stand beside the best of the Allied Forces. 
They were put to the severest physical, mental, moral 
tests of what the intense training had done for them. 
They endured the practice for open warfare in the 
sleet and rainstonns of that excessively cold winter in 
the frozen hills of Lorraine. They of the Forty- 
second division will never forget the memorable 
Christmas Day on which they were ordered southward 
to Langres. Despite blizzard and ice-covered roads, 
lightly clad and so poorly shod as to leave many a 
time bloody trails on the snow, their three days ' march 
continued. Then they showed that indomitable spirit 
which marked the Rainbow throughout its entire 
course. They endured the grim months of maneuvers 
and trench warfare, the weary waiting for active serv- 
ice when they might show to the world that American 
troops had at last entered on the real mission of hurl- 
ing back the Germans. They did their duty, and wher- 
ever placed they met the enemy with dauntless cour- 
age — those boys who were a part of the greatest army 
the world has seen and who "marched breast forward 
* * * * never doubted clouds would break." 
From the opening of the Spring drive on March 21, 



IN THE WORLD WAR 11 

1918, Butler men were a part of every major military 
operation which followed until the foe sued for armis- 
tice. They fought at the fall of Bapaume and Peronne 
on March 24, at the taking of Armentieres on April 11, 
and in the bloody battle for Amiens on April 24. They 
were of the First division when she showed to the 
world of what mettle the American army was made 
in attacking and in holding Cantigny on May 28. They 
were mth the First, Second and Forty-second divisions 
(divisions which a German captured report declared 
to be the three ''First Class attacking Divisions of the 
American Army") and knew the fury of the fighting 
until the Armistice was signed. 

The fighting in the Marne Salient for seventy-two 
days (May 27 to August 6) was divided into four 
separate and distinct battles, in all of which Butler 
men participated. They were in the Second and Third 
divisions in the Aisne Offensive, the first phase of the 
German drive toward Paris, in which, on June 1, they 
reached the Marne near Chateau-Thierry. They were 
with the First and Second divisions in the Montdidier- 
Noyon Defensive, June 9-15, and in the Sixth Marine 
regiment in its brilliant operation of driving the enemy 
from Belleau Wood, taking Bouresches and Vaux. 
They were with the Third and the Forty-second divis- 
ions in the Champagne-Marne Defensive, July 15-18, 
and effective in helping to stop the German drive 
toward Paris. They were in the Aisne-Marne Offen- 
sive, July 18 to August 6, in which the First, Second, 
Third, Fourth and Forty-second took part in driving 
the enemy back from the Marne. They were of those 
who, on the night of July 19, cleared the Marne forever 
of German troops and were with the Fourth, Twenty- 
sixth, Thirty-second and Forty-second divisions in 



12 BUTLER COLLEGE 

pursuit from the Manie to the Vesle rivers. They were 
present at, and a part of, the wonderful feat when, as 
Hertling, the German Chancellor, said upon his death- 
bed, *'the history of the world was played out in those 
days." 

They were of those of whom, in the General Order, 
pubHshed on August 27, to the American Expedition- 
ary^ Forces, General Pershing says, in part: 

"You came to the battlefield at a crucial hour for the 
Allied cause. For almost four years the most formid- 
able army the world has yet seen had pressed its invas- 
ion of France and stood threatening its capital. At no 
time has that army been more powerful and menacing 
than when, on July 15th, it struck again to destroy in 
one great battle the brave men opposed to it and to 
enforce its brutal mil upon the world and civilization. 

"Three days later, in conjunction with our Allies, 
you counter-attacked. The Allied armies gained a 
brilliant victory that marks the turning point of the 
war. You did more than to give the Allies the support 
to which, as a nation, our faith was pledged. You 
proved that our altruism, our pacific spirit, and our 
sense of justice have not blunted our virility or our 
courage. 

"You have shown that American initiative and en- 
ergy are as fit for the tasks of war as for the pursuits 
of peace. You have justly won unstinted praise from 
our Allies and the eternal gratitude of our country- 
men. 

"We have paid for our success with the lives of 
many of our brave comrades. We shall cherish their 
memory always and claim for our history and litera- 
ture their bravery, achievement and sacrifice. 

Pershing.^' 



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In these costly weeks Butler men were killed in 
action or received wounds to their lasting hurt. Of 
those who fell on the field of honor were Lieutenant 
Robert Edward Kennington, Corporal Marsh Whitney 
Nottingham, Lieutenant Kenneth Victor Elliott. 

In July, additional divisions arrived from the United 
States, among them bringing Butler men were the 
Ninetieth, which went into line August 24, and did its 
first major fighting at Saint Mihiel; and the Ninety- 
first, which was assembled in the Eighth Training 
Area until September 6, when it moved up to constitute 
part of the reserves for the Saint Mihiel attack. The 
Eighty-fourth division arrived in France late in Sep- 
tember, was designated as depot division and ordered 
to Le Mans where its units were broken up and sent 
to the front as replacement for combat divisions. The 
Thirty-eighth division arrived in October, was also 
ordered to Le Mans where its personnel too was 
broken into replacement units for combat divisions. 
These divisions were thus enabled to be replaced im- 
mediately to full strength and to be sent back for the 
Meuse-Argonne offensive. 

During the remaining intense weeks of the war But- 
ler men played a superb part in the operations of the 
First American army. In the advance on Saint Mihiel, 
in the air battles, in the three phases of the Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive, our boys were in divisions on the fore- 
front: the First, Second, Third, Sixth, Twenty-sixth, 
Twenty-ninth, Thirty-third, Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sev- 
enth, Forty-first, Forty-second, Ninetieth and Ninety- 
first. They were an integral part of that tremendous 
army of three-fourths of a million men which, under 
General Pershing, held seventy-two miles of front and 
for forty-two days pushed forward in indescribable 



14 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

dash and vigor over sea of mud, shell holes, shattered 
wire, ruinedtrenches, up to the very gates of Sedan, en- 
countering all the while frightful storms of metal. 
Across No Man's Land they were of those who ad- 
vanced in waves of infantry, in wallowing tanks, in 
driving artillery, under bursting machine gun fire; 
they were with the engineers working mth mad haste 
to prepare a way for carrying ammunition, food, water, 
supplies, for ambulances and trucks to bear the 
wounded who had fallen as autumn leaves, until the 
German strength finally crumbled under the power of 
the last blow in the Argonne forest and the German 
Government signed an Armistice on November 11, 
1918. The casualties were very great. Butler College 

was not spared. 

* * * 

France could ill spare a regiment during the final 
blows upon her front; but the appeal of Italy for 
American reinforcement to stimulate her morale and 
achievement was so insistent that General Poch dis- 
patched to the Italian fighting sector the Three Hun- 
dred Thirty-second United States Infantry, com- 
manded by Colonel William Wallace*. This well- 
trained gallant regiment was received with great 
honor. It paraded through several cities making a fine 
impression ; its flag aroused confidence and hope. The 
king and the general staff reviewed it upon an historic 
plain. Its guard of honor was composed of battalions 
of Italy's picked veterans. It was assigned to the 
Tenth army of Italy under the British coimnand of 
General Cavan, and held an advance guard position in 



*Colonel Wallace, a grandson of Mr. Ovid Butler, founder of 
Butler College, was a student of Butler College in the years 1885- 
1887, leaving to accept an appointment to West Point. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 15 

the bitter fighting when the Italian offensive began, 
on October 26, on the Piave front. It was in the des- 
perate final struggle of Italy with her age-long enemy, 
when victory crowned her heroic efforts and the Aus- 
trian armies, shattered and destroyed, were driven 
from all that bore the name of Italy. 

The Three Hundred Thirty-second regiment was 
thanked by the king of Italy for its service and a gold 
medal bestowed upon it by the city of Genoa. The 
Italian citizens of New York presented Colonel Wal- 
lace, for the regiment, upon his return to the United 
States, in April, 1919, a gold medal on which was in- 
scribed ''The Italians of New York to the glorious 
Three Hundred Thirty-second Infantry regiment in 
commemoration of the battles fought in Italy in 1918, 

for noble ideals and for democracy. ' ' 

* * * 

The story of the men in fighting action does not com- 
plete the narrative of the part Butler College took in 
the American Expeditionary Forces. There were 
those who knew the disappointment of not getting into 
action though in France, whose divisions had arrived 
too late to be used in replacements. In the Motor 
Transport Corps, the Signal Corps, the Air Service, the 
Chemical Warfare Service, the services of supply in 
all its departments : the Quartermaster Corps, Medical 
Department, Engineer Corps, Ordnance Department, 
Red Cross, Young Men's Christian Association, were 
our college men who performed their offices with as 
great show of bravery, oftentimes, as the men on the 
front. The administration of these departments with 
their intricate ramifications and enormous problems 
and responsibilities demanded executive ability of 
highest order. Their performance of duty deserves 
great praise. 



16 BUTLER COLLEGE 

War did not end with the signing of the Armistice, 
nor was rest for the weary veterans yet in sight. On 
November 14, the Army of Occupation was formed of 
the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Forty-second, 
Eighty-ninth, and Ninetieth divisions, and for over a 
mmith was following the defeated Germans out of 
France, across the Rhine, and finally into Germany 
where at Coblenz was established its headquarters. 
Here for several months it kept watch on the Rhine. 

Service at Home 

About forty per cent, of the Butler College en- 
listed were sent overseas. From the Officers' Training 
camps others had, in the main, gone out to the scattered 
camps of the country and had rendered efficient de- 
voted service in the cantonments, the aviation fields 
and the naval stations. 

They were as well trained and as worthy as those 
selected for the American Expeditionary Forces, but 
choice willed it otherwise. "Theirs not to make 
reply." If the bearing of disappointment be test of 
strength of character, then these men are of our heroes. 
They were discharged from service the early part of 
1919. They had done their full duty in winning the 
war. 

The Casuality list at home was greater than that 
suffered abroad. In various camps had died, chiefly 
of pneumonia. Sergeant Conwell Bumside Carson, 
Lieutenant John Charles Good, Sergeant Henry Rein- 
hold Leukhardt, Corporal Guy Griffith Michael,. Pri- 
vate Wilson Russell Mercer, Private Marvin Francis 
Race, Lieutenant Bruce Pettibone Robison, Appren- 
tice-Seaman Henry Clarence Toon. As direct effect 
of the war have died later, Lieutenant Carl Christian 
Amelung, Corporal Dean Weston Fuller. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 17 

As the tenseness of 1918 had increased, the Govern- 
ment, realizing the seeming length of the struggle, 
issued orders for the establishment in five hundred and 
sixteen colleges of a Student Army Training Corps. 
Butler College was one of the institutions chosen in 
which to accomplish the two-fold object of the Secre- 
tary of War: "First, to develop as a great military 
asset the large body of young men in the colleges ; and 
second, to prevent unnecessary and wasteful depletion 
of the colleges through indiscriminate volunteering by 
offering to the students a definite and immediate mili- 
tary status." 

On October 1, 1918, the most of the two hundred 
and sixty-four boys who formed the unit were inducted 
into Federal service. It was an impressive scene, that 
of those youths pledging ''allegiance to my flag and 
the Republic for which it stands: one Nation, indivis- 
ible, with Liberty and Justice for all." Judge James 
A. Collins administered the oath of allegiance and Mr. 
Hilton U. Brown thus greeted the new soldiers : 

''Gentlemen, I am here in behalf of the directors of 
Butler College to bid you welcome, and to extend the 
same hand of power, because it has love back of it, 
which has already been extended by this institution in 
two other wars. Only a half -century ago nearly every 
man in the college was called to the front. Many of 
them never returned. Some returned, and some even 
are here, honored members of the Board of Directors 
today. Later, others went into the Spanish- American 
War. Last year more than two hundred students of 
this institution enlisted for this great war; and now 
you are come. Already three hundred of you are en- 
listed in this corps, and more are following. Three hun- 
dred men at Sparta held the pass against the enemy. 
Three hundred men such as you can work such wonders 



18 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

as my feeble tongue can not describe. The Government 
has seen fit to appeal to the colleges to give their great 
service in this inomortal period — the world's crisis. 
There is not the slightest lingering doubt in the minds 
of any of you, nor of us, nor of these friends who are 
here, that you will render the kind of service that the 
United States expects you to render, and which those 
who are 'over there' and whose reverberating guns you 
can almost hear this moment, have rendered. Already 
at least five of those who went out from these halls last 
year have paid the full tribute of their patriotism and 
scores of others are in hospitals and we know not 
where; but we know that their service is one hundred 
per cent., as yours will be. 

We congratulate you. Yours is the opportunity of 
all times ; and we not only congratulate you, but in be- 
half of this institution we pledge to this Government 
all its resources ; and we back that with its history and 
its honored traditions. We bid you Godspeed. ' ' 

The erection north of Irmn Field of two barracks, 
a bath house, a mess hall, a canteen, seemed to convert 
over night the campus into a military post. The influx 
of the sudden appearance of two hundred sixty-four 
soldier-students filled the college to its capacity accom- 
modation. The curriculum must be enlarged to offer 
courses necessary for those in military training, while 
the regular student body must not suffer loss Avith the 
innovation. The professors in true patriotic spirit met 
the demand of the ocasion. The women of the faculty 
and of Irvington were energetic in giving time and 
strength to the need of the boys in their midst as well 
as of those far away. An improvised hospital was fur- 
nished and regulated by Butler alumnae, and profes- 
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scourged the Corps and the hospital was kept well 
filled. On December 12, Wilson Russell Mercer, of 
Anderson, Indiana, died. These were days when 
* hearts beat hard,' days of genuine living. 

The Armistice put an end to all need of a Students' 
Army Training Corps. Scarcely had the camp been 
planted when 

'*It folded its tent like the Arab, 
And silently stole away." 

Its realization soon became hazy. 

The college continued its work through the months 
of 1917 and 1918 as best it could, its attendance made 
up almost entirely of women and under-classmen. 
Great messages were brought, strengthening the forti- 
tude by opening the vision to new values, by Dean 
Stanley Coulter of Purdue University and Dr. William 
Douglas McKenzie of Hartford Theological Seminary, 
by speakers less widely kno^vn, and by prayers unre- 
corded. Stirred by the energy and passion of war, men 
spoke with solemn sincerity. Into the stuff of their 
thought and utterance, whether in active service or not, 
they poured forth convictions and ideals so forceful in 
character and so beautiful in form as to linger in per- 
manent memory. 

Common thought, common activity, common expe- 
rience, brought into close relationship all forces of the 
college. A spirit of devotion to duty, of sympathy in 
suffering, were great educative powers, and probably 
not since the Civil War had there been teaching of so 
elevated a character as during those months. The 
work of the alumni stands out with no less credit to 
the Alma Mater. To enumerate the activities would be 
to name the alumni list entire. A little more slowly, 



20 BUTLER COLLEGE 

perhaps, did the men of another generation follow the 
eager boys, men who had acquired family ties and busi- 
ness responsibilities. It was a struggle for them to 
leave their offices and homes, but ultimately a large 
number went out to do their part in saving civiliza- 
tion. Untaught in war, they found themselves in a 
changed environment, but they did not fail to quit 
themselves like men. Often their experience in indus- 
try placed them at "desk jobs," without much romance 
or activity, but they had their share — a large share — 
in the consummation of victory. Whether it was with 
the draft board, or the Council of Defense, talking with 
the ''four minute" men, working in scientific labora- 
tories, assisting with many drives, contributing of time 
and means, and in numberless ways supplying moral 
strength to the fighting boys, the patriotic Butler 
alumni did honorable civilian service. 

The work of the women, if less romantic, was none 
the less earnest and devoted to a high cause than 
that of their brothers upon the field. Red Cross 
classes were organized in the college even before the 
United States had enterd the war. Knitting, sewing, 
war gardening, entertaining the soldiers quartered 
at Fort Benjamin Harrison, canteen work, the selling 
and the buying of Liberty bonds, were activities car- 
ried on by the young women to their fullest extent. 
For the Christmas of 1917, every Butler student in 
service was remembered by the Young "Women's 
Christian Association. Fraternities bought bonds and 
adopted French or Belgian orphans. The college gave 
generously for the relief of American students in Ger- 
man prisons. In the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion drive of 1918 the quota assigned Butler College 
was two thousand dollars. She went over the top in 
meeting the assignment. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 21 

To the call sent out by the Association of American 
Colleges to grant scholarships to two young women of 
France for the collegiate year of 1918-1919, Butler 
College answered promptly. These scholarships were 
the gifts of an alumnus and a friend of the institution. 
For the second time these scholarships were renewed 
annually for different candidates. It proved profit- 
able for the French young women to have opportunity 
to know the spirit of American education and life; 
profitable for the students of the college to have op- 
portunity of receiving at first hand interpretation of 
the soul of la douce France. 

The work of Butler women was beyond all praise. 
Every energy was put forward in the aroused, amazed, 
agonizing world. One went overseas mth the American 
Expeditionary Forces; another did reconstruction 
work in France; some nursed in camps; while still 
others too numerous to mention did war work in the 
various cities of homeland. 

And who gave more for country and for God than 
the Butler College mothers — mothers who sent forth 
to war one son — two sons — three sons.^ 

The Homecoming 

Now and then throughout the late summer and 
autumn of 1918 individual officers — birds of passage — 
had been sent back on missions, chiefly that of instruc- 
tion ; but not until January, 1919, did a division return. 

On a clear cold mid-winter day thousands of admir- 
ing, grateful Hoosiers lined the streets of the business 
district of Indianapolis to greet the first Indiana units 
to return — the One Hundred Thirty-seventh and One 
Hundred and Thirty-ninth regiments of the Cyclone 



22 BUTLER COLLEGE 

division. Cheers and tears mingled in welcoming the 
two thousand seven hundred and eighty gallant sons, 
stalwart, erect, firm-stepping they passed with full 
evidence that they had maintained the State 's patriotic 
tradition for fighting men. They had come from all 
walks of Hf e and in short space of time had been welded 
into a finely drilled and disciplined organization. As 
the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, 
headed by Colonel Robert L. Moorhead, '96, passed, 
especially Battery F, Butler College went mid with 
the enthusiasm of commingled pride and happiness. 

"It is the proudest moment of my term in office to 
welcome you men home and to try to express to you the 
gratitude the people of this State feel," said Governor 
Goodrich in his official greeting. "While it was not 
your high privilege to see service on the battle-front, 
you have shown willingness to make the greatest sacri- 
fices men can make for their country. We all are hon- 
ored to have you back among us in civil life. ' ' 

The remnant of the regimental fund not expended 
was by the vote of the soldiers divided between Butler 
College and Purdue University. To the college came 
eight hundred seventy-eight dollars and thirty-five 
cents, and is known as the "One Hundred Thirty- 
ninth Field Artillery Student Loan Fund, " to be used 
for loans to members of the One Hundred Thirty-ninth 
or their immediate relatives who attend the college. 

By January 24, the One Hundred Thirty-ninth regi- 
ment of Field Artillery had been mustered out. Its 
experience was a thing of the past ; for it the great war 
was now a closed volume. 

On May 7, 1919, the State welcomed home her veter- 
ans of many battles. The official date chosen was the 
event of the return of the One Hundred Fiftieth Field 



IN THE WORLD WAR 23 

Artillery of the Rainbow division and the Lilly Base 
Hospital Unit Number 32, the last organizations made 
up of Indianapolis and Indiana men to return ; but the 
expression of appreciation and gratitude was for every 
Hoosier soldier, sailor and marine who had worn the 
uniform of his government during the World War. 
And indeed it was a glowing tribute Indiana paid to 
her service men. It was the one day of a life-time. 
People gathered by the hundred thousand to hold out 
laurel wreaths for the brows of her victors. They 
seemed everywhere. They packed the streets. They 
filled the windows and the stands along the route of 
march. They fringed the roofs of the office buildings. 
The decorations of the city were lavish and beautiful, 
abounding in the triumphant colors. 

Under radiant skies the twelve thousand service men 
and women passed in a five-mile line of march as 
proudly as though in review before the whole world — 
and whoever had greater reason for so noble bearing ! 
It would be difficult to imagine a more stirring pic- 
ture than the procession as it approached the Victory 
Arch. As the silken cord was severed with a sword by 
veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish-American 
War, the parade entered the Victory Circle elaborately 
festooned with ropes of laurel swinging from white 
columns backed by stands of American flags. Air 
planes were humming low over the Soldiers' and Sail- 
ors' monument, lending a spectacular touch to a scene 
moving in the extreme. No wonder the crowd was 
exultant. Yet, almost as suddenly as it had burst into 
boundless enthusiasm, a deep silence fell upon it as 
the caisson drawn by four black horses paused in 
front of the north steps of the monument, from which 
a figure robed in white representing "Indiana" 
descended slowly and placed upon it a wreath of laurel. 



24 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Butler College was grouped beside the line of inarch 
and wdth proud enthusiasm hailed her boys as they 
passed individually or in companies or in automobiles 
bearing the wounded. She had cheers for the living 
and tears for her dead. 

The formal welcome the college gave to her valorous 
sons occurred in Commencement week of 1919. The 
campus was never more beautiful nor the old buildings 
more festive than on that memorable seventeenth day 
of June. Throughout the chapel, the halls, the recita- 
tion rooms, were effectively and significantly placed 
the Stars and Stripes mingled with the Tri-color and 
the Union Jack. The old building unde profecti sunt 
was vocal with greeting and gratitude and patriotism. 
At four o'clock an audience gathered in the chapel to 
listen to a program presented by ex-service men. It 
was an informal program, at times extemporaneous, 
full of fine feeling and noble sentiment. 

In the evening of this Soldiers' and Sailors' Day, 
the college entertained at dinner at the Claypool Hotel, 
the students who had been in service. The faculty, 
trustees, undergraduates and friends of the institution 
made the largest and most brilliant social assemblage 
in the history of the school. President Howe presided 
and introduced the speakers of the evening : Dr. Scot 
Butler, '68, and Judge Ira W. Christian, '80. 

Thus ended a wonderful day*. 

There had lingered overseas men who had accepted 
proffered scholarships for one term in French or Eng- 
lish Universities; but in the summer these men, too, 
returned. By autumn came the men released from the 
Army of Occupation. They had left us as boys, they 

♦All that was said in the program of the afternoon and evening 
may be found in the Butler Alumnal Quarterly, July 1919. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 25 

returned to us serious men with well-defined ideas of 
the great elemental virtues of manhood: courage, 
truth, love, service, sacrifice. As their brothers had 
died for the Right, they came back to live for the Right. 
Some returned to Butler College to complete their 
course of study, others went elsewhere for academic 
training, and still others took up the business of life. 

On December 14, 1919, in the college chapel a Mem- 
orial service was held in honor and in love of those 
students who did not return. Never had the old walls 
heard a sweeter, holier service than on that Sunday 
afternoon. The parents of the glorified boys were 
present, as were many alumni and friends of the insti- 
tution. Dr. A. B. Philputt was the speaker of the oc- 
casion. A picture of the boys then known to have 
fallen in the service was presented by Miss Grraydon. 
Lieutenant Earl T. Bonham, '20, drew back the flag 
which had veiled a bronze tablet thus engraven: 



1917 IN MEMORIAM 1919 

Carl Christian Amelung 
Hilton U. Brown, Jr. 
Conwell Burnside Carson 
Kenneth Victor Elliott 
Dean Weston Fuller 
John Charles Good 
Robert Edward Kennington 
Henry Reinhold Leukhardt 
Wilson Russell Mercer 
Guy Griffith Michael 
Marsh Whitney Nottingham 
Victor Hugo Nysewander 



26 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Marvin Francis Eace 
Bruce Pettibone Robison 
MacCrea Stephenson 
Henry Clarence Toon 

It is given to man once to die 
How then shall one more nobly die 
Than in his country's cause 
And for the safety of mankind? 

so died these. god be with them. 
May they rest in peace. 

In the name of the Alumni Association, Claris 
Adams, '10, presented to the college the tablet with 
these words: 

It is my privilege very briefly and very simply to 
perform a task which to each one of us is indeed a 
labor of love. We have gathered this afternoon as the 
sons and daughters and friends of Butler College, 
proudly bearing to our Alma Mater a precious gift. 
We come to enshrine upon the historic walls of this 
beloved institution a tablet sacred to those heroic dead, 
a tablet which was forged in the flame and smoke of 
battle, inscribed by the tears and prayers of countless 
loved ones, and hallowed by the supreme sacrifice of 
those to whose immortal memory it is erected as an 
imperishable memorial. 

More than a year has passed since the dark clouds 
ceased to thunder their hymn of hate at Armageddon. 
More than a year has passed since the merciful hand 
of peace came to bind up the wounds of a broken world 
and heal the sorrowing heart of humanity. More than 



IN THE WORLD WAR 27 

a year has passed since the last hero fell fighting for 
his God and his country. And yet, although more than 
a year has passed we still cannot cast our eyes across 
to Flanders field and view the spectacle of the world 
except through a veil of tears. But every tear is jew- 
eled, every grief is gilded, every sorrow is crowned by 
the pride of those who know that these, our loved ones, 
could not have died in a higher or a holier cause. 

''As He died to make men holy, 
So they died to make men free." 

And those who die in freedom's cause never die in 
vain. 

Life is only an opportunity to serve, and who shall 
say that these who have fallen in the radiant morn of 
early manhood did not serve mankind as they could 
not serve although they had lived and labored three 
score years and ten. There is not need of brazen 
tablet, there is not need of art, of song or story to im- 
press the names of these immortals upon the hearts of 
this generation. But we who are their beneficiaries, 
the beneficiaries of their heroism and sacrifice, desire 
thus to perpetuate their glory that succeeding genera- 
tions of youth as they come into this mighty institution 
may read upon that tablet the heroic story of the 
glorious past, may catch inspiration from the lives of 
these, from the sacrifices of these, and thus achieve 
higher and nobler things, that they may resolve that 
they will preserve the fruits of victory so dearly 
gained, that they may catch the courage to defend, if 
need be, in their turn, these institutions of ours which 
these boys have defended with their lives and sancti- 
fied with their blood. 



28 BUTLER COLLEGE 

This is not an hour of sorrow, it is an hour of inef- 
fable pride and love. ''It is given to man once to die. 
How then shall one more nobly die than in his coun- 
try's cause and for the safety of mankind? So died 
these. God be with them. May they rest in peace. ' ' 

President Howe for the college accepted the gifts of 
picture and of tablet. ''Taps" sounded. The close 
came — the close, but not the end. Still the vivid beau- 
tiful faces of these boys are seen; still their voices 
speak ; still their souls too go marching on. They con- 
quered though they died, and through their victory the 
Alma Mater has received her greatest impulse to that 
higher and finer living for which she was endowed. 



CHAPTER II 

Glimpses of the War From Letters and Diaries of 
Butler Men 

Sergeant B. Wallace Lewis, A. B., '15 : Camp Funs- 
ton. My civilian life is a past dream. In the short 
time I 've been in the army I have so absorbed the mili- 
tary that really I am military to the core. The soldier 
is different from other people — he dresses differently, 
talks and acts differently, and thinks differently. The 
most serious economic questions bother him little ; art, 
music, love, are a closed book with us until . 

You asked me if this was a popular war. Empha- 
tically Yes. There are about 25,000 men here (over 
75,000 have been sent out of this camp since last fall), 
and I believe there aren't over ten men in camp who 
aren't r'arin' to go. Our battalion is composed of vol- 
unteers entirely — rich men, college men, poor men, 
roughnecks, but all volunteers. The spirit of this army 
is wonderful. For illustration : 

The other day we received an order from the War 
Department calling eight of our men for immediate 
overseas duty. They all went up to the medical officer 
for a special final examination. When they came back 
we could hear them a quarter of a mile away yelling 
like fiends, and running and whistling; that is, si^ of 
them. Two were turned down and one of them cried 
like a baby. The other was terribly downcast. Now 
those men (the six of them) were going at once into 
the nearest approach to Hell this world has ever seen. 

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30 BUTLER COLLEGE 

They howled for joy. You can't beat an army that 
offers its life with a yell of joy. 

Tomorrow morning our battalion (456 men) marches 
dowTi to the train and embarks for an unknown destina- 
tion. We only know that we are going near the Gulf. 
Three months will see us at the latest among the men 
of the American Expeditionary Forces, General Persh- 
ing in command. By the time you receive this, we will 
be way down South, God knows where — we don't care. 
Uncle Sam takes care of his sons. 

I have had the good fortune to be made a corporal. 
One hundred and seventy-five volunteers entered the 
battahon at the same time I did. Six were made first- 
class privates and I was made a corporal. I feel a little 
pride in the achievement, in that promotions are few 
and far between in the Signal Corps. We have college 
men in our company who have been here since Novem- 
ber and are still privates. 

I could tell you all about camp life, if I had a ream 
of paper and a month of time. It is intensely interest- 
ing and healthy. I have gained eight pounds, can hike 
with the best of them, can eat like a hog, and can sleep 
like a log. There 's nothing like the army as a physical 
developer. 

There is one great problem worrying the army. We 
know we are all right, that we are in this thing to the 
bitter end. What we are afraid of is that the civilian 
population will wear out, will tire of the war before we 
get it won. We are afraid the American people haven 't 
the nerve stamina for a long war — and it will be a long 
war. They may tire of eating fish and combread, of 
wearing old clothes, and buying Liberty Bonds. They 
may feel that they are called on for too great sacrifices. 
We are offering our lives gladly. If they are as game 





JUSTUS WILLIAMS PAUL 

Lieutenant, 306th Brigade 

Tank Corps 



BURVIA WALLACE LEWIS 

Sergeant Signal Corps 
First Depot Division 





STOREY M. LARKIN 
Corporal, 150th Field Artillery 



HENRY MICHENER JAMESON 
Lieutenant, Infantry 



IN THE WOELD WAR 31 

as we are, there is no question of the ultimate result. 
Without their co-operation the thing will fall through 
ingloriously. 

I wouldn't trade this uniform and the chevrons on 
it for anything in the world. It is a rare privilege to 
be one small cog in Uncle Sam's citizen army. I hope 
I come back; but, if worst comes to worst, I'm game. 

Gamp Stanley, Texas — It is with pleasure I accept 
your congratulations for my trifling achievement. 
However, I am about as far as I shall ever get in this 
branch of the service. The Signal Corps, especially 
the radio end of it, in which I am, is notoriously hard 
to get anywhere in, as the work is extremely technical 
and demands electrical engineering ability of a high 
degree. I wouldn't want to be picked for a commis- 
sion, because that would necessitate going to a train- 
ing camp for at least three months and I don 't want to 

waste that amount of time from active service. 

* • # 

Now to be serious. I noted the appointment of the 
men you named with pleasure. However, with all 
your respect and admiration for the big business man 
and his genius for organization, don't overlook the 
fact that the fighting man is after all the man who 
will lick Germany. His is the opportunity for the great 
sacrifice. It is he who bears the brunt of Germany's 
hate. * * * Never in my life did I see a single man 
animated with half the seriousness and nobility of pur- 
pose that characterizes every man in the whole army. 
Never since I entered the service have I seen a single 
trace of heroics or grand-stand playing. It is every 
man for the good of the whole, whatever may happen 
to himself. We sometimes talk about what is coming 
to us, though not very often. There is no bombast or 



32 BUTLER COLLEGE 

boast in any one, simply a quiet determination to do 
one's duty. I believe every man in our organization 
is already a hero. There isn't a man in the company 
who wouldn't follow our captain through hell. That 
is the quiet and unconscious effect of the wonderful 
discipline of this army. Army discipline is the great- 
est moulder of character in the world. It is better than 
a college education. When I first came here the 
thought of subjecting my body and soul without 
recourse to the directions of my superior officers was 
repulsive to me. I was an extreme individualist. Then 
I saw the light. It is only by submitting without ques- 
tion to my superiors that I achieve the greatest indi- 
viduality. By conforming to discipline I reach the 
greatest ability to be of service. My power for good 
is increased by the giving up of my own direction of 
myself. And the peculiar thing is that after a time 
the conformity to discipline becomes a pleasure. The 
same thing is true of every man in the company. Being 
a volunteer company, we have men from all walks of 
life. We have hojs who left college to come to war, 
who left even high school. We have business men who 
gave up profitable businesses of their own. We have 
sons of the rich and of the poor. We have men from 
nineteen different States. All this in a company of 
sixty-two men. Now there is no distinction between 
them. The son of the woman who washed for the fam- 
ily of the rich man is now a sergeant over the scion of 
the wealthy house, who, a private, scrubs the kitchen 
floor. Funny! When the war is over, the army is 
going to turn over to civil life thousands of the finest 
citizens in the world: men who have known what it is 
to sacrifice for another ; men who have been taught by 
the school of hard experience to give the other fellow 
first consideration. The rejuvenation of America 



IN THE WORLD WAR 33 

will come. Business and politics both will be purified; 
because these men can't stand the taint of crookedness. 
They will have lived under conditions where such 
things would mean death to themselves and their com- 
rades. They will have been taught by experience that 
the straight and narrow is the only path. Oh, I tell 
you, things are going to be great ! 

The captain and I were talking yesterday and the 
talk switched around to home, which it will do every 
time when army men talk. They can't help it. Home 
is the greatest place on earth. When he spoke of his 
mother's death his eyes filled with tears. You know 
man's habitual emotional restraint. In the army 
things are different. We are all together, we live a 
simpler and closer life than civil convention would per- 
mit. Our captain is an old soldier, somewhat hardened 
by years of campaigning; and yet, when he spoke of 
his mother his eyes filled with tears. What wouldn't 
a fellow do for a man so strong and gentle as that? 
Who was it said "the bravest are the tenderest, the 
loving are the true," or something to that effect? I 
believe it now. He is a born leader of men. He is 
stern and absolutely just. The men's respect for him 
is a queer mixture of love and fear, something like a 
religionist's feeling for God. He has an almost foolish 
pride in his men. We have in him. The most peaceful 
man in the company would fight his own brother, if 
he spoke ill of our ' ' skipper. ' ' The captain would lick 
the colonel if he intimated that our company could be 
improved upon. Honestly, now, can such an army be 
beaten? 

Lieutenant Henry M. Jameson, A. B., '19 : Camp 
Taylor. ''What do I think of all this?" I could not 
tell you what I think if I wrote all night, because I 



34 BUTLER COLLEGE 

think a lot about it. For the army itself, as an ideal, 
I can't say too much. By that I mean there is no insti- 
tution in America with the clearly defined purposes 
and aims, and with the certain and efficient means of 
accomplishing those aims. It is an immense school 
and ^rill turn out millions better for their contact mth 
it. But in spite of all this immense efficienc}^ and uni- 
versal system, the army as it stands now has its draw- 
backs. This big place do^\Ti here is largely in the ex- 
perimental stage. They are finding out some things 
every day that no one can tell them and yet have to be 
learned. 

At present we are marking time. That is more 
probably true in the Depot Brigade than throughout 
the camp. As one of the boys said, ''We are on inac- 
tive service. ' ' We have fifty men in the company and 
five officers. I mention this only because it is the con- 
dition throughout the brigade. Since the third draft 
quota has been held up and about half the men who 
had been in training here have been sent to other 
camps, we have been left mth only our minds to im- 
prove. Well, it's not quite so bad as that, but some 
time ago it would have been a golden opportunity to 
have all this time and also incentive for study. The 
lighter reading, such as war stories, I don't dig 
deeply into, because there mil be lots of time to learn 
all that, and at first hand, too, and reading stories 
about the horrors of war doesn't brighten the prospect. 

Among the young officers around me, I rarely see 
signs of military genius ; and if I do, it is mostly limited 
to having the good sense to go to bed at a respectable 
hour in order to be ready for duty the next day. For 
the most part we are a happy-go-lucky crowd that has 
a good time and works pretty hard while we are at it. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 35 

However, for all the real work we are doing just now, 
we might be retired on half pay and still be taking ad- 
vantage of Uncle Sam. But when it comes to good 
hard work, we are there and we like it. It does seem 
strange that a man should like it and therefore be 
happy when he is going as hard as he can go, and feels 
he is doing some good. But it's a fact. It has hap- 
pened to me just often enough so that I know that it 
makes one feel like a real person. 

The army, and the whole war business, is an im- 
mense business proposition. There is an endless check 
and balance, responsibility and accountability that one 
never thought of during the early days of our entrance 
into the war when everything was ' ' Join the army and 
be your o^vn boss," or "Enlist today," etc., and when 
one's romantic blood ran high. But if we have some 
of the honor and responsibility of being officers, we 
have also our share of the drudgery. For check-and- 
balance seems to go on in spite of our entrance into 
the army — indeed, it seems to increase a little. 

One thing the army has done for me, is this : I had 
dreams and plans for the future. Now they are gone. 
The reason for that is that we neither dream nor do we 
plan in the army. In the first place, this is all done for 
us, and in the second place, we cannot get inspiration 
out of endless orders, and records that we keep, along 
with hair-splitting interpretations of regulations. 
However, if I can learn one thing from all this, it will 
have profited me much, and the army has that to teach, 
and that is there is only one way to do a thing and that 
is the right way. 

The people of Louisville are treating us beautifully. 
They stick us unmercifully for our money, but they 
treat us well. They have public dances and private 



36 BUTLER COLLEGE 

dances for us. They entertain us at dinner and invite 
us to church. On the whole, their spirit toward us 
has been fine. I enjoy the Collegian very much. Re- 
member me to all my friends at college. 

Lieutenant Gaerison Windees, '19 : It seems as if 
I had to come down here to Hattiesburg to realize in 
what esteem and affection I hold old Butler. One 
must often be taken away from environment and ad- 
vantage to know what wonderful opportunity he has 
had. The beautiful old buildings, the campus, the 
classrooms, and the faculty seem almost a dream to me 
now. There, I was associated with only the highest 
class of men and women; here, I am thrown with all 
classes. One is subject to all kinds of temptation, and 
this life is a constant builder of character for a man 
with will-power enough to resist. I hope some day to 
come back to Butler and finish my education. If I do, 
it will be with a different point of view from the one 
I have had. I begin to reahze there is something else 
in the world beside pleasure, and that one must not 
only gain, but he must sacrifice — ^he must gain through 
sacrifice. I feel that I have had every advantage, and 
I am now ready to give whatever may be necessary for 
the preservation of our government and its honor. 

CoEPOEAL Feank Sandees, '19 : Camp Shelby. Your 
letter came five minutes ago. I have been here a week 
and am well satisfied. Our work wiU be mounted 
signal work and we shall be employed in handing down 
firing data and other information from headquarters 
to the batteries in action. The detachment is com- 
manded by a regular army captain and is composed of 
five sergeants and seven corporals, eight mounted 



IN THE WORLD WAR 37 

orderlies, signal men, motorcyclists, couriers, and 
motor car drivers. I am studying to be a signal opera- 
tor. In a way the work will be dangerous, for we will 
be used as outposts between the firing batteries and 
the brigade headquarters. 

We have a nice bunch of men here, they being se- 
lected because of their college education or their prev- 
ious service. 

Many of the Butler boys are in camp. Across 
the road from my tent is the field hospital battalion 
in which are George Kingsbury, Clifford Wagoner. 
Stanley Ryker, and Seaborn Garvin. I called on them 
last night. Jacob Doelker and Miles Tiernan are with 
the Seventy-fifth Brigade headquarters under General 
Lewis. Eugene Sims and Chester Barney are trans- 
ferred from Battery F to the Ammunition and Field 
Service Trains headquarters. De Forest O'Dell. Gar- 
rison Winders, Halford Johnson, Dean Fuller, and 
Francis Lineback are still with Battery F of the One 
Hundred Thirty-ninth. I shall see them often, as we 
are in the same brigade. 

I have been visiting the Y. M. C. A. There are six 
in camp. They are doing a wonderful work, not least 
in giving a touch of home life to the camp. Movies 
three nights a week, lectures, stunts, athletic contests, 
and church on Sunday, keep the soldier boys from be- 
coming homesick and discouraged. At times I become 
blue when I think of home and college and the dear 
friends I left behind ; but I am cheered by the thought 
that we are doing only what was expected of us, and 
that when we return, if by chance or good fortune we 
do return, we shall be welcomed back with the greatest 
of joy and heartfelt thanks. I am looking for that 
day, but to come not soon. I have little time to read. 



38 BUTLER COLLEGE 

but I do not want to fall into a rut, so last night took 
Scott's "The Abbott" from the Y. M. C. A. library. 

The other night I took a walk alone through our por- 
tion of the camp. It is such a lonely view at night. All 
around are myriads of lights shining forth from dis- 
tant rows of mess-shack windows, and the pine treeS; 
towering in the moonlight, are the only visible signs 
of nature except the blinking stars and the cold moon 
overhead. When I am alone at night I always com- 
pare myself to the moon — far from everybody and cold 
and lonely. Do not think me sentimental — even a sol- 
dier may possess poetic instinct. 

With fond memories of old Butler, her students and 
her teachers. 

Seegeant Blooe Schleppey, '12: ''Shoving off" 
for France at Quantico, Va., is a living picture show 
in three reels which might well be entitled "Parade," 
"Religious Services" and "Good-bye at the Station." 

Two or three days before the actual leave-taking 
(the time is never certain), the Battalion lucky enough 
to be assigned to overseas duty from the great Over- 
seas Depot at Quantico, holds its farewell parade, a 
review of all the troops in the departing unit, fully 
equipped for travel with complete heavy marching 
orders, rifles, wire-cutters and intrenching tools. 

Between the time of the parade, when every man ap- 
pears at his best, and the time for entrainment, the men 
are kept busy rolling heav^^ marching orders, perhaps 
entertaining mothers and friends who have come to 
bid them good-bye; bidding farewells to less fortun- 
ate "buddies" who are retained at the post; marching 
in companies to various supply stations for different 
articles of equipment and uniform and disposing of 



IN THE WORLD WAR 39 

the personal belongings which they can not carry with 
them. 

Here and there throughout the gigantic camp moth- 
ers are walking arm in arm with their sons, or sweet- 
hearts are strolling through the last precious hours of 
conversation with their heroic Marines. Around the 
corner of a Battalion street or main road comes a com- 
pany of men singing and cheering, marching ''Route 
step," overjoyed in the glory of going across and the 
exultation in the privilege of wearing the overseas 
uniform. What a sight it is! Square-j awed, vigorous, 
marching on his toes, with a pack that weighs consider- 
ably more than sixty pounds, each man blithe in the 
final realization of that long-cherished day when he 
may start for France. What an unconsciously over- 
bearing attitude he has, as much as to say, "My train- 
ing as a Marine is completed. Now I am going to 
France for more training and after that when I have 
been in the trenches the war will soon be over." You 
can't blame him a bit for his egotism, either, for as an 
actual fact he is ready to deliver the goods right at the 
Kaiser's front door. 

It is whispered about that Battalion will en- 
train the next morning. Every man has been "shot" 
or inoculated with the required serum, the task of 
equipping him is done and the order has come to roll 
the heavy marching order that evening. The latter 
fact alone is indicative of the fact that the unit will 
' ' shove off ' ' because heavy marching orders are never 
rolled the evening before an ordinary hike. However, 
Dame Rumor has been exceptionally busy infesting 
the camp with strange stories. 

"We will not leave for a week" is the sage advice of 
an old-timer. "I had it from headquarters." he adds 
with a knowing wink. 



40 BUTLER COLLEGE 

*'Day after tomorrow is the day," says a man but 
three months in the service who is a hard-faced Marine 
and pulls the corners of his mouth do^^m as he talks. 

'*A Quartermaster Sergeant told me," repeats 
another, and so the time of departure is obscured by 
the very anxiety of the men who most desire to know 
it accurately. 

But the evening is fraught with excited anticipation. 
Men in companies still attached to the post are show- 
ered with fancy cakes of toilet soap, extra shaving out- 
fits and toilet kits, knives, picture frames, string, and 
all sorts of ''junk," since superfluous articles are not 
allowed to displace the important baggage destined for 
the serious business of war. 

Groups sit up in the bunk houses far after taps dis- 
cussing the big event, and for once the order of the 
Top Sergeant to "pipe do^vn" is unavailing, for even 
he is too excited to sleep. 

Then comes the eventful morning of all mornings, 
when reveille blows at 3:30 a. m. and the men march 
to religious services in the big gymnasium. Hymns 
are flashed on the big moving picture screen and the 
chaplain bids his "leathernecks" a good-bye which is 
both a tribute to their good behavior in camp under his 
guidance and a reminder of what conduct is expecjted of 
them ' ' over there. ' ' 

It was at communion at one of these services when 
the Second Battalion of the Eleventh Regiment was 
leaving that one of the Marines burst out crying. His 
great sobs were uncontrolled and his buddies half rose 
in their seats to leok at him. Suddenly he arose to his 
feet. * ' I know what you think, ' ' he cried. ' ' You think 
I 'm yellow. I 'm not yellow. It 's not that. My mother 



IN THE WORLD WAR 41 

was killed in an air raid on London and I just can't 
wait till I get to France." The chaplain and song 
leader started "Onward, Christian Soldier" and the 
men sang that hymn as it had never been sung before. 

Early "chow" always follows these religious serv- 
ices, after which the men answer roll call and march 
to the station, w^here already a huge crowd of stay-at- 
homes is assembled. 

"Don't crowd, plenty of room for everybody. Rear 
rank in the rear coaches and front ranks forward," 
come the commands at random. The Red Cross has 
vied with Morris Levine, of the Jewish Welfare Board, 
in distributing candies and sandwiches, all of which 
had been consumed before boarding the train. Mr. 
Levine was distributing writing paper, but many of 
the Marines cried * * Never mind the paper, out with the 
candy. ' ' 

The band struck up "Over There" as the men 
rushed into the coaches. All the jealous Marines who 
were denied the privilege of making the trip to Berlin 
were there shouting at the top of their voices. Pan- 
demonium reigned in the scattered ranks of the stay- 
at-homes, while eagerness alone disturbed the well- 
ordered ranks of the men who were lucky enough to 
smile good-bye. 

Colonel Van Orden's twelve-year-old son, George, 
was there crying because he could not go with his 
father's regiment to which he had been attached while 
in camp as drummer boy. Wives and sweethearts 
thronged the station as the train began the long trip to 
the port of embarkation. 

Slowly in the long line of coaches a semblance of 
order was restored as the men settled back in groups to 



42 BUTLER COLLEGE 

sing or give company yells. Six men in each car, 
under the direction of Mr. Levine, furnished entertain- 
ment during the trip. Burlesques of happenings in 
camp and takeoffs on officers, quartettes, and humor- 
ous monologues provided a continuous vaudeville per- 
formance. Each coach competed in a singing contest. 
The winning coach received a package of cigarettes and 
a chocolate bar for each man. 

All this had happened in the excitement of the night, 
and shortly after dawn the train pulled into Washing- 
ton, D. C. An early offensive was immediately 
launched by an over\vhelming force of beautiful Red 
Cross workers, who were straightway organized so 
that not a man missed a hot cup of coffee and the many 
dainties distributed. 

After a brief hour in the capitol the train resumed 
its eventful journey. The men made excellent connec- 
tions with the transport and went aboard at once after 
the arrival of their train. So a large part of the 
Eleventh regiment, U. S. M. C, bade good-bye to camp 
training to take over the serious life of fighting the 
Kaiser's minions. 

Lieutenant Justus W. Paul, A. B. '15: We are 
finally on our way across, but it has not been any pleas- 
ure trip so far. There were a thousand and one little 
things that came up at the last minute and kept us on 
the jump. After we embarked there were just about 
as many details to look after. 

We have a good boat and a fine bunch of officers. 
There are two Y. M. C. A. men and they have a movie 
machine and other means of entertainment, so we shall 
not lack for recreation. The guard and other details 
keep us busy part of the time. The other time is de- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 43 

voted to reading, pla>dng cards, etc. There is a big 
ship library and in addition a large Y. M. C. A. library. 
One of the main pastimes is listening to tales of 
''subs" from the ship officers. They have some 
dandies. * * * 

We are floating about in the war zone now and 
should be in port in a couple of days. There hasn't 
been any excitement of any kind and I hardly antici- 
pate any as we have a sufficient convoy. The most 
daring ''sub" wouldn't have much of a chance to get 
us, and if she did we have plenty of boats and rafts. 
The food is fairly good. I haven't missed a meal yet 
and have had several extras. The worst part is the 
darkness at night. Everybody goes to bed about eight. 
Can't even smoke at night. I have been on watch up 
in the crow's nest two da^^s out of every three. We 
work in four reliefs — two hours on and six off. It is 
rather hard on sleep, but is quite an experience and 
breaks the monotony. * * * 

We are finally here and settled temporarily. We are 
quartered in wooden barracks much the same as those 
we had at Fort Harrison. Everything is so beautiful 
and so quaint and yet so sad and somewhat run down 
that you seem to be swallowed up by the environment. 
Spring is here, the grass is green, the brightest green 
I ever saw — and flowers — every house has a flower 
garden that would dazzle your eyes. The houses are 
quaint little affairs with colored trimmings, the main 
part always being white. The whole town seems like a 
spot of heaven to see it from a little distance, but when 
you get down into it, there is the steady flow of black 
along the street. Women of all stations and ages are 
dressed in mourning and yet they are so brave — always 
smiling and bright. I don't think I shall ever forget 
my first impressions here. * * * 



44 BUTLER COLLEGE 

I was away up in central France the other day — 
rather three days, on special duty. I passed through 
many interesting towns and places but can't give the 
names. I met a lieutenant from Fort Harrison there. 
He was also at Hattiesburg. Chrisman is his name. 
We had a fine chat. * * * 

Just came off guard. Have been on twenty-four 
hours as usual, only Jimmy fell in a river last night 
and as a result I had to stand the whole tour. Usually 
we divide it. * * * It is so hard not to write of all 
the interesting things I see every day. There are so 
many things to be done here and they have to be done 
at once so we hardly know what to expect in the way of 
duty. There is one thing I want to have spread 
around. Tell any one you see who is in the army, that 
it is not necessary to bring tobacco. We can get all 
we want at our own canteens and at the commissary 
and the price is better than at home. But every one 
does need a canvas basin and bucket. * * * 

The company nearly went crazy when the mail came. 
They don 't have much chance to write and I suppose a 
lot of people in the States don't write to them because 
they don't get answers. If every one knew the eager- 
ness with which the men wait for mail, every one would 
write to a soldier. It makes tears come to your eyes 
to see the expressions on the faces of the men who 
don't get any letters. * * * Now I am going to study 
a little French. I am getting along fairly well but it is 
slow work. However, I shall be able to give Dad some 
lessons in slang and trench idioms. * * * There is a 
party down at the Officers' Club tonight — rather, an 
entertainment. Some music, a bit of elocution, a cup 
of tea, and a cake. * * * There doesn't seem to be 
any idea of our leaving this part for some time. No 



IN THE WORLD WAR 45 

doubt you are glad to hear that, but it is very dull and 
uninteresting. I much prefer to be throwing shells at 
the Huns. * * * 

I have lots of news this time. Bob Kennington 
landed Sunday. He came down to see me last night 
and we went around to^vn a bit, but I had an engage- 
ment with a French officer and his wife. He is adju- 
tant at a big prison camp near here and is going to take 
me through the camp some day. There are about 3,500 
Boches there. * * * 

Had some more visitors today. Halford Johnson — 
you remember him at Butler, perhaps — and McGuire, 
who was first sergeant of Battery F in the One Hun- 
dred Thirty-ninth. * * * j have a great many friends 
here. I go out to see several French families and could 
not ask for nicer people. And we have some very 
funny experiences, too. Yesterday the captain of Com- 
pany K brought his company to attention and saluted 
a man who looked for all the world like a French gen- 
eral, but who turned out to be a postman. And I have 
heard dozens of Americans ask for ''des yeux" instead 
of "oeufs." 

Lieutenant John Iden Kautz, '17 : 1 cannot tell you 
in so short a space all my first impressions of this beau- 
tiful country. We had no sleep the last two nights on 
the boat as we were forced to stay on deck through the 
danger zone. On Monday we made the dock at Bor- 
deaux after a run up the Gironde through the greenest 
and prettiest lands I ever saw. Our train left for Paris 
at 10:30 that night, and, as we traveled third-class on 
our military permissions we made no attempt to sleep, 
but had what I suppose few Americans have had — 
the privilege of traversing the chateau country in the 
moonlight. 



46 BUTLER COLLEGE 

We are quartered here in a very pretty private park 
of about twenty-five acres of sloping ground on the 
banks of the Seine just above the Trocadero. This is, 
of course, right in the middle of the more historic 
regions of Paris. During my work this week driving a 
camion, I have seen many of the things worth seeing 
here, and on my afternoon off have visited several 
others. I must go now. I shall have to be very par- 
ticular not to say the wrong things, so I shall not give 
you much news till I know what is proper to send. My 
German name has handicapped me several times, but 
they have been convinced of my good faith eventually. 
God knows I wish I could do more for these people. 
Even this little while has taught me that they have 
given of the best the}^ have; that no sacrifice is too 
great ; that the best men of France are being killed for 
the sake of great ideals. Only now does one begin to 
realize what the war really is like. I hope that our own 
fair land shall never have to suffer as has France, but 
may the day soon come when we prove to them at least 

that we are readj^, if necessary. Au revoir. 

* * * 

A brave soldier convalescent from wounds he had 
received in action was to receive the' Croix de Guerre 
and we had been asked (a special favor to us) to take 
part in the ceremony. The men from other camps 
were there, too, making five hundred Americans in all. 
It was a thrilling thing itself to see the five hmidred 
of us form a hollow square around the Stars and 
Stripes before the march. Our new uniforms looked 
neat and handsome, and the sun shown pleasantly on 
dull polished rifles and helmets as we stood at atten- 
tion. There were French soldiers and officers, and a 
band played the Marseillaise as the man to be decor- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 47 

ated was escorted into the cleared space in the forest. 
The service was short and impressive, consisting of a 
reading of the citation, a few words of presentation, 
the pinning on of the cross, and the kiss on each cheeky 
while we and the French poilus stood at ''present 
arms. ' ' 

Tonight the big guns out there are tired of roaring 
at each other and are still. I am very glad, for it gives 
me a chance to forget the things of yesterday when I 
was nearer the front. I was prepared for a good deal 
before I went and the separate incidents did not dis- 
turb me much ; but when I got home to record my im- 
pressions in my diary and saw it all Avritten down, it 
was depressing to find how much of it there was in this 
small section where there is little activity, and to think 
how much there must be over all the front. 

But here, when we rolled into the grounds as the 
dusk was settling, it was very different. Picture, if 
you can, the dense forest with the chateau of white 
stone and roofed with blue tile set in a clearing. From 
each corner of the front of the house stretch long rows 
of browii army tents to where the hill rises sheer for a 
hundred feet beyond. Two hours ago there would have 
been goats feeding in the center park and peacocks and 
pheasants preening themselves on the lower terrace. 

Now it grows dark and they are gone. 

* • # 

As I write I am sitting on a shock of wheat thrown 
down from a harvest pile in a hilltop field. It is rather 
a rendezvous of mine, for the hill is high and one can 
see for many miles — to the north and east the smoke 
of battle, to the south and west such fertile valleys as 
remind me of the hilly south of our owai State. The 



48 BUTLER COLLEGE 

hour is early, for at three this morning I awoke from 
my first full night's sleep in many a day, and break- 
fasted and sent away some cars. They are keeping us 
pretty busy now. There has been much fighting here- 
abouts, of which you will read and no doubt will forget 
before this reaches you. There is Craonne, between 
the Chemin des Dames and the twin plateaus of Char- 
tinbrise and Californie, where the French have with- 
stood such tremendous onslaughts in the last two weeks 
— and all of it we have served a little with our trucks. 

Our ambulances were delayed, so I joined one hun- 
dred and fifty fellows who were going up to drive the 
big army trucks. There are five hundred of us now 
from Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Chicago, California, 
and a dozen other universities, and, though we were a 
bit disappointed in the change at first, we feel now 
that we are helping France the most by doing so. 

I suppose that we never can make the name that the 
ambulance corps did for itself. There is none of the 
romance or glory, no chance of gaining the distinction 
that the men who came before us honorably did with 
their little ambulances. Mostly it is just hard plugging, 
jarring, straining labor with the five-ton loads, which 
may be anything from logs to shells and nitroglycerin. 

It rains too much, and even the excellent roads here 
cannot stand the traffic. Sometimes for a week at a 
time the game is mostly sliding sideways down the 
hills, with your eyes shut and praying that the other 
fellow keeps his distance. When we go up close it is 
always at night, and there are no lights — even cigar- 
ettes — allowed, so we stand a pretty good chance of 
sliding into the man ahead, although the night work is 
getting to be more or less instinctive now. 

I no longer drive very much, as I am a brigadier 



IN THE WORLD WAR 49 

of the company, and am kept jumping on and off the 
trucks a good deal, but often on the way home^ when 
we have been going pretty hard for a bit and I have 
not slept, I wake from a doze at a slackening of the 
speed and make a frantic grab for the brake lever 
which is not there, from the habit of running in the 
dark. 

You will want to know if we have been under fire, 
I suppose, and what it felt like. The answer is 'yes,' 
but the experience was much less terrifying, even on 
the first occurrence, than I had anticipated. Several 
of us (I for one) have nicks in our steel helmets which 
we hope some day to display. But, of course, those 
pieces were pretty well spent before they came, or T 
would not be writing this letter. 

One man in another company is reported to have 
complained to his lieutenant that some one from our 
company had thro^^^l rocks at him the other day= In- 
vestigation showed the top of his car well shredded and 
eleven pieces of shell in the bottom of the car. 

But somehow they do not seem to get us. The men 
take unholy chances sometimes, for the sake of seeing 
all there is to see, but a fool's providence takes care 
of those who do such things, and no one has been hurt 
so far. 

Tell the anxious ones at home who think this work 
more perilous than the ambulance, that it is not so. 
We go the same places they do every day, and one has 
only to see a big shell burst to know that if we are to 
meet one it does not matter what our load is. 

I suppose we are all to become fatalists by now 
with regard to life and death. It is well, for that phil- 
osophy will let us live each day with all the fervor in 
us, and it leaves no place for cowardice. There are 



50 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

loved ones at home whose memory will not let us want 
to die, but if it comes we can count our lives well spent, 
at least. Sometimes it galls a bit to know that we are 
almost outsiders in the war, that though we carry guns 
and drill and stand our turn at guard, are in the vast 
army of France, we are not really of it. To see the 
things the war has done to France ; to drop down into 
some back trench and talk to men who have been where 
hell was popping hour by hour; to pass the miles of 
roadside unnamed graves, each in part responsible for 
the black that veils the womanhood of France; to see 
a little town that once housed happy families made 
into dust before your eyes, or view the pitiable human 
dust of wounded, wornout men that straggle ever back 
to rest while others take their places — it makes you 
want to fight and question why you have a right to 
stay unscratched. 

The war as we can see it here is far from being 
fought all out. America will have to give at least a 
part as much as France, and recollect that it is to suffer 
and do without and die and sorrow as the present gen- 
eration never has. Many of us who are the young men 
of the day will have to give the best we have to pay. 
There is no more glamour about it all any more, no 
glory. The things I have seen, in days to come will 
make me shudder when I have time to think. But I 
guess I am willing enough to 'carry on,' at that. The 
best of it out here is that we do not have time to think, 
but feel somehow a sense of duty that sends us along 
well enough content, and we live more or less on the 
day to day excitement. Besides, you are not to think 
we live in calm enough to permit of such speculation as 
I have indulged in this early hour today. Mostly it is 
laughter and joke about the things that happen, no 





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matter how serious they may be, and sing a bit at 
night. 

Sometimes when some one is laid up for a day or 
so, he breaks out with a poem or a song or adds some 
new choice bit to our atrocious slang. Altogether, per- 
haps the fun is a bit unreal, born of the reactions 
from the cessation of the crash and rush of wind and 
shock of the big guns up front. But we are all right, 
and for the time, at least, we would not change places 
with our own army, for we are having lots of action. 
Later, perhaps, we can join them when they are doing 
things. I hope so. 

Since writing the foregoing two men have come 
in rather badly dazed from catching a pair of spent 
balls in the side of the head. I have given them first 
aid and shipped them off to the hospital — it is nothing 
much, but it spoils our record. Except for three brok- 
en arms there had been no other injuries so far. 

The men are scattered about the grounds cooling off 
after a long drive that kept us out till nine o'clock. 
The stars are coming out and peace settles over us for 
the night. 

I wish I could tell you all of the things I am seeing 
and doing, but suppose there are good reasons for our 
being instructed to refrain. I think I am beginning to 
understand more why we are in the war and to feel 
very glad that we are as a nation come to the aid of 
France in this hour of need. I hardly see how these 
people can have kept at it so long and so hard and 
prepare still to go on. 

I have told you of the admiration France has awak- 
ened in me — of the inspiration of the splendid struggle 
she has made. Those things shall never die mthin me 
and that is partly why I am so glad to see our men. 



52 BUTLER COLLEGE 

France — not Paris — is suffering a nervous de- 
mentia. The common people can no longer reason at 
all. They are hysterical. They do not like us Ameri- 
cans very much at heart, although they are very glad 
to see our khaki now. They say, ''Why didn't you 
come two years ago and help us out? Then France 
would have had a chance. Now you fight your o^vn 
war while we are killed, and there is nothing left of 
us to enjoy what we have gained." In a way at least 
they are right. It hurts to admit the fact. 

Russia has laid down on the job through ignorance 
or wilfulness, with the result that last month 750,000 
men were transferred to this front. England is doing 
splendidly where she fights, but she is holding less 
than a third of all the lines. Prance may go through 
one more great campaign — no more. Her army is hol- 
low-eyed — exhausted. They must rest each few hours, 
and many welcome death however it comes. They are 
drunken when they go into battle — crazy when they 
come out. Why? Not because there is anything wrong 
with the men, but because humans cannot live for three 
years through what they have had and remain the 
same. They will not give way to our trucks oftentimes, 
hoping to be injured by us. When two trucks collided 
the other day, both drivers went crazy from the shock. 
These are but examples of the conditions. 

One cannot help having a little lost feeling in being 
so quickly plunged into such seas of awfulness, and I 
suppose the experience sobers and ages one as nothing 
else can. It is indescribable — often nauseating to 
some of the weaker of us ; perhaps it is well that the 
world is not allowed to know all the truths about Bel- 
gium's suffering at Germany's hands. Perhaps it is 



IN THE WORLD WAR 53 

well that the life in the trenches is only vaguely pic- 
tured and that those who love things beautiful cannot 
see Rheims, for instance, as I saw it distantly yester- 
day — a dust heap disturbed twelve to twenty hundred 
times a day by German shells. 

One cannot imagine what a single shell can do till 
he has seen one burst. The other night when we were 
up with fourteen cars to serve a new sortie very close 
up, we took refuge in a Red Cross "poste de secours" 
while shells were falling in a stone court beyond. The 
destruction was enormous and fragments struck above 
us, nearly a thousand feet away, with wounding force. 
It is not as terrifying to be under fire as I thought it 
would be, but then we never had it very bad. 

* * * 

I come to the end of a nearly perfect day as I write 
now, and I draw a little circle around the date of 
another Sunday nearer home with a glad, tired feeling 
— happier than I have been for days. It was three 
o'clock this morning before our run of yesterday was 
finished. We had ridden all night under clear bright 
skies and once when we crossed a high foothill, it 
seemed almost that we were riding through the stars in 
still, peaceful spaces, Avhere the mountains hid the sight 
and sound of war and blotted out all evil things. So 
when the last car had reported in and I was free, I 
couldn't want to leave it all for sleep, but took instead 
a knapsack with a little food and crept away up through 
the shadow of the highest hill to wait the coming of 
the sun doA\ai the narrow valley to the east. How still 
and subtly the gray overcast the stars and the white 
dew-fogs of the night lifted and smoked away from the 
jewel-tipped fields below! How gently the red-pink 
clouds slid aside to let the big red ball roll through 



54 BUTLER COLLEGE 

and change to glittering yellow in the clearer air, while 
coming it painted the hillsides downward to the val- 
leys with its light ! Then the world awoke to meet the 
aurora. The birds came forth and sang as they soared 
and dipped among the fields, while all the world was 
for the moment gunless and still. Behind me my com- 
rades slept the dead sleep of fatigue — unknowing. Out 
yonder men slept in sodden misery in holes — too tired 
to care if there was beauty near. 

It is the war — and, oh, how terrible. Why should 
it be that these poor people must suffer so? Why 
should one have to think that all the blue farm smoke 
that rises here and there was made by fires that women 
built because their men had gone to help the stricken 
homeland? Why, while the chateau over there stands 
out so white and pretty in the morning, must one know 
that the roof is gone and the walls on the other side 
were broken because an enemy came to destroy and 
kill and reap an awful harvest in the fields where grain 
has given way to the forms of men at the sowing time ? 

It is this that can make us hate, that blinds our eyes 
to the purple of the gentians and the deep red of the 
poppies, that takes us away from the ones we love till 
the debt is paid. So be it for a little while longer at 
least. 

Today when the air grew warm and I had eaten a 
little bit, I wandered away on a well-earned holiday to 
see the land as I liked. And as I walked I thought of 
many things, and home of all things most. 

Then at length I turned away from the road, up a 
little path to the top of Mount Notre Dame, where the 
villagers round about — old men and the women — were 
come to worship and to pray for France in the cathe- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 55 

dral that stands there on the ancient rock. I couldn't 
help slipping into the doorway to see the service, for I 
knew it must be beautiful in there under the great 
stone arches that master-builders had so lovingly- 
wrought long, long ago in the days before the New 
World was even a myth. Somehow I knew the priest 
would be white-haired and majestic, that the place 
would be cool and dark with the stillness of dead cen- 
turies. Somehow I knew that only peace could reign 
in there and rest for tired hearts, and holiness and 
love. But I couldn 't stay — I, with my uniform of war, 
was out of place in there, and I left it to its simple 
people to go into the sunshine and the woods. And 
the breath of the place, the mysticism of the rose-lit 
windows, and the orange burning of the tapers, went 
with me as I left and brought me happiness of heart. 
It is very splendid to be giving so much time to the 
Red Cross work — you will always be glad that you 
have in years to come, for that is the only truly glori- 
ous part of the war — the Red Cross. 

Af Instrument of Destiny 

Nothing but good can befall the soldier, so he plays his part well. 
Come out of the ordeal safe and sound, he has had an experience in 
the light of which all life thereafter will be three times richer and 
more beautiful ; wounded, he will have the esteem and admiration 
of all men and the approbation of his own conscience ; killed, more than 
any other man, he can face the unknown without misgiving — that is, 
so long as death comes upon him in a moment of courage and enthu- 
siasm, not of faltering or fear . . . Never have I regretted what I 
am doing, nor would I at this moment be anywhere else than I am. 
I pity the poor civilians who shall never have seen or known the 
things that we have seen or known. Great as are the pleasures that 
they continue to enjoy and that we have renounced, the sense of being 
the instrument of Destiny is to me a source of greater satisfaction. 

Alan Seeger. 



56 BUTLER COLLEGE 

I don't remember when nor how this little clipping 
came to me. I f omid it, perused it, lightly enough, then 
kept it to re-read many times and to ponder more than 
once the words the poet wrote. He lived and died out 
here in that philosophy and found it good — even to that 
last hour, when men in battle come to choose this life 
or that death in brave deeds. In writing he has passed 
the clean thought on to those of us who find our power 
of words too slight to formulate a doctrine of our own 
to guide us through these fields. And I have made it 
mine. 

I send it to you because the time has come when you 
and I must face a little more squarely the eventuality 
for me of which he wrote himself. C'est la guerre. 

Seegeant Robeet E. Laesh, '20: I hope this reaches 
you before Christmas, because I would like to have a 
letter to read myself for a present. 

This letter proposition is rather hard to get around 
over here, so if this is stupid and uninteresting, don't 
blame me. I'll say all I possibly can. I am getting 
along finely, and grooving fat, from all appearance. 
We feed pretty well here, especially in quantity. T 
should have taken a few French lessons before I left, 
because I do have some trouble making these people 
understand what I want. I usually come out victor- 
ious, however. I have been to to^vn once. This is a 
very quaint and picturesque country around here, and 
I would like to describe it to you, but they say ''No," 
so there I am. I'll save the description until I come 
back. Sunny France — I wonder where it is? This is 
the first bright day we have had for some time. It 
has been rainy and cold — the kind that goes clear 
through. I guess I'll live, nevertheless. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 57 

We are on a sort of a vacation this afternoon, and 
everyone is sunning his clothes and blankets and him- 
self, and, incidentally, thinking of home. You know 
we do that often — it makes a pleasant pastime. It is 
surprising how little homesickness there is. You would 
think there would be a lot, because we have not had 
any mail for nearly a month, and you know lack of news 
from home often brings that peculiar disease called 
homesickness. These American boys show their stock, 
though, because they adapt themselves quickly to any 
condition. Of course there is a little crabbing, as we 
call it, but that soon passes on and the condition be- 
comes laughable. That is the spirit that is going to 
bring us through this war with flying colors. 

How's every one in Butler? How's the football team 
getting on? I want you to know that I've wished for 
a book of poems several times since I've been here. 

Well, goodbye. My hello to everybody. 

Lieutenant Earl T. Bonham, A. B., '20: The copy 
of "Character and Heroism" has come. It certainly 
deals with subjects of vital current interest, but its 
thought would be more effective in time of peace. 
Words on heroism are superfluous over here, for hero- 
ism is considered a form of doing one's duty. Sacri- 
fice, too, is just plain duty as millions of men have done 
it. As to character, why, character is made daily here. 
Every skirmish tends to bring out what is in a man. 
A man's whole future may be moulded by incidents 
which occur in the soldier's daily routine. The life of 
a soldier is very different from the life of the civilian 
and for the most part makes him much more useful all 
round. 

There is little time for me to write, but I think of you 
all at Butler many times, be sure. Good night. 



58 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Lieutenant John Paul. Ragsdale, '12 : We are not 
permitted to tell much of what we are doing, so that my 
letters are necessarily brief. I think I may safely 
say, however, that while we are very busy, we still have 
had an occasional leave, and that consequently I've 
been able to see of this beautiful country enough to 
know that I must return after the war to see more of 
it. I am glad to know the college continues to pro- 
gress. There are no Butler men near my station, so 
the news of the college is doubly welcome. I am 
pleased to hear the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. are 
taking such an interest in affairs. 

You may take these few words as my sentiment: 
We are here to stay — and to fight — until America has 
given the world that thing for which she entered the 
war — Democracy. We are all mightily in earnest, and 
those at home may rely on us that the job will be well 
done. 

Lieutenant Whitney R. Spiegel, '18 : " Somewhere 
in France." The best thing you folks back home can 
do is to write letters, and after they have been finished 
to sit down and to write more letters. Yesterday's 
mail was the first I had received in fifteen days, so 
you can imagine with what interest I devoured the 
news. I was more than fortunate in the number I re- 
ceived — twenty, so I ought not to complain. It really 
would be better if mail came every three or four days, 
instead of from fifteen days to three weeks and then 
have enough to start a post office. 

It was great news to hear of Butler's glorious foot- 
ball season. I have thought of the college many times. 
and have wondered how every one was getting along. 
I suppose you had a great time when Harry Perkins 
brought his team from Camp Taylor to play Butler. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 59 

Tell the Butler students that the money they contri- 
buted to the Y. M. C. A. is the best investment they 
could have made. There is no institution for which 
I have higher words of praise than the Y. M. C. A. 
Many, many enjoyable evenings I have spent in their 
little frame huts, listening to their victrola or piano. 
Really it makes one think he is back home as he listens 
to the old songs he has heard so many times as he sat 
about the grate fire. As this stationery shows, I am 
writing now in the Y. M. C. A. 

There is a great ''bit" going on over here, but what 
is most interesting is censored. I am trying, however, 
to remember most of the things of importance to tell 
you when I return. 

This town of "Somewhere" is a great place. It has 
no doubt received more prominence than any other city 
in the world. To describe it would be as hopeless a 
task as my learning French. The French language is 
hard to conquer. You can study and study and think 
you are progressing finely, until you hear a French- 
man talk, and you are then sure you have never heard 
the language before. 

There are many historical places of which I had 
read, and now it is my pleasure to see them with my 
own eyes — a. treat I had never dreamed would be mine 
when burning the midnight oil to learn about them. 

I have not told you much news, but if this conveys to 
you Butler people my thanks and appreciation it will 
have served its purpose. My thoughts are with you a 
great deal. I am not with any Butler boys or any one 
I ever heard of. 

Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown, '19: We have just 
come in out of the dark night after giving Mr. Boche 
"two rounds." He gave us a good shelling today, but 



60 BUTLER COLLEGE 

the men have gro^vn so used to old Heinie 's shells that 
they go right on mth their work mthout batting an 
eye. They have found that it is comparatively easy to 
tell when the shell is coming close and the men usually 
have time to duck into some shelter before it ''lets go." 
It is still snowing a little outside, but the weather is 
not cold and we feel that the winter is about over. We 
have had enough cold weather during maneuvers to do 
us the rest of our lives. I do not particularly fancy 
getting up in the morning and having to thaw out my 
shoes before I can get them on. But it all goes in a 
day's business in the army. In fact we are far from 
uncomfortable in our daily routine, though, of course, 
by turns, we have long night hours and are glad to get 
to our comfortable dugout, with a stove and plenty of 
light and ventilation. 

Sergeant Robert E. Larsh, '20: ''Somewhere." 
Somehow tonight it is not easy to write. I can think 
of a million things I want to say, but the regulations 
say "no". So, if this is a little rambling, blame it on 
the war. 

This has been a beautiful day. We have so few of 
them that we take great care to mark them down. It 
has been cold, but the kind of cold that makes you feel 
that you have taken a new lease on life. It braces me 
up anyhow. Now please do not get the impression 
that I am down and out, for we have too much to do 
that is interesting to feel so. 

I am in one of those many Y's which are popping up 
all over France. The^^ are doing a great work. There 
is usually a canteen connected mth them where we can 
buy tobacco, candy, canned goods, and other little 



IN THE WORLD WAR 61 

articles which we miss so much. There is a large music 
room connected with this, where are given some really 
fine concerts. You would not think such music could 
be found in an army band, but the Minnesota band has 
some of the bands back home wiped clear out. 

I broke the record and went to church this morning. 
This surely is a red letter day. Freddy Daniels and 
the bunch out of our cantonment went. This was the 
first service our chaplain had held, so we decided to 
start out right. You know we have to march in some 
sort of formation everywhere we go, but we didn't 
know what would be the regulation formation for 
church, since it 's not in the book. We finally lined up 
in the shape of a cross with Danny leading and I at 
the foot. We did get serious when we got there and 
enjoyed the service very much. 

You ask if I ever see the Butler boys. I think I see 
about fifteen every day. Besides Danny, there are 
Duke Witherspoon, Art Bryan, Storey Larkin, Ed 
Whitaker, in the same company with me ; then, Fritz 
Wagoner in the supply company, and about five in 
Battery E, so we are not a bit lonesome. I hear from 
''Tow" pretty often, too, and hope to see him soon. 
He seems to be enjoying himself and getting along 
finely. I think he has been to Paris twice — once on 
leave and once on duty. He surely makes a good sol- 
dier. Carlos is over here, too, with the Fifteenth F. 
A. ; so, you see, the Butler boys are well represented. 

A book of poems came to me for Christmas, and I 
do enjoy sitting by the stove and reading it. I have 
read it clear through and have started it over again. 
It moves whenever I move and it's going to take a 
journey soon. I lent it to one of the boys while I was 



62 BUTLER COLLEGE 

away on a trip. We compare notes on which poems are 
the best, and at times we get into pretty lively discus- 
sions. He has a book of Huxley's Essays which helps 
to pass the time between retreat and bedtime. We got 
pretty hot the other night over ' ' On a Peace of Chalk. ' ' 
The whole cantonment was in before we got through, 
so you see our time is not spent so badly. 

Lieutenant Eael T. Bonham, A. B., '20 : As to that 
statement about being an officer of the first company 
that got a shot at the Boche, I might tell you that T 
was an officer in the first regiment to get the first 
crack. You know that we went up to the front with 
quite a few men and quite a few batteries, and as to 
which of about ten batteries fired the first shot is still 
unsettled. However, I might as well claim it though, 
for no one knows for sure. 

To comply strictly with the censorship regulations 
would be but to tell about my health and the weather, 
but I will tell you that we are at the front and giving 
them hell all the time. The Boche had an idea that they 
were tough, and the other night came over under a 
barrage to try to clean us up. To their sorrow, how- 
ever, we were on the job and placed a cute little bar- 
rage behind them so they could not get back to their 
trenches. There they stood between the devil and the 
deep blue sea, between two barrages through which 
they could not pass. Our machine guns stretched out 
a bunch of them in No Man 's Land, and as soon as their 
barrage had lifted to enable them to come on into our 
trenches, they came — as wild a bunch of scrappers as 
ever greeted any one. Of course some of our boys 
were stretched out, but they killed a bunch of Huns and 
captured the rest. It is believed that not an invader 
got back to his trenches. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 63 

I don 't know whether I ought to tell this stuff or not ; 
but you called for something of the adventurous na- 
ture, and if there is anything more so than a trench 
raid, I don 't know what it is. 

Lieutenant H. U. Brown, Jr., '19 : May 3 — ^We are 
getting what we came over here to get — action. If we 
were to stop to think about it we would find we were 
dead tired because night and day we are on the go. 
We were out last night at eleven o'clock and did not 
get back until after daylight, but we accomplished our 
purpose. The future seems to be full of just such 
"parties," but ammunition supplies have to go up and 
we cannot win the war if we quit when we feel tired. 
But we know the Germans lose as much sleep as we do, 
and probably more from the way the guns are bark- 
ing. We live in an old chateau perched on a wooded 
hill. It is of ancient date and furnishings. I found in 
my room an old book, written in English and printed in 
1718, dealing on the subject of religion. Just now I 
am reading ' ' Prayers for Sick Persons. ' ' Fortunately, 
I am not sick. Some of these prayers, I fear, would 
really kill a sick man, and yet they are good stuff when 
one is in a prayerful mood. 

I feel myself lucky in getting over here. Some of 
the officers of my acquaintance are going home for a 
few months to train the new army, but all of us would 
rather stay over and see this thing through. Time 
passes swiftly. There is no chance to get homesick. 
We try to see the comedy side of every incident, and 
our battery from captain down is as cheerful a lot of 
men as one could find. War is not so bad if you don 't 
pay too much attention to the horrible side of it. A 
laugh and a cartoon will help to drive the blues away, 
and in no degree contribute to the welfare of the 



64 BUTLER COLLEGE 

enemy, nor to the misfortune of your own men. I know 
that Paul (brother of the writer) is not downhearted, 
and you know I am not. 

May 5 — I must stop the letter I have just started, 
because some sixth sense tells me that a package is 
about to be received. Sure enough, here it comes, and 
mth it the "gang" came in. The package was duly 
appreciated by the multitude. One lieutenant as he 
consumed a cigarette and a portion of the chocolate, 
settled himself comfortably and absorbed the most wel- 
come reading matter, remarking: ''After all, maga- 
zines are the best thing to send." 

It is extraordinarily quiet tonight, possibly because 
it is Sunday, at least I think it is that day. It is hard 
to keep up on the day of the week when they are all 
alike. Speaking of horses, I have one that outranks 
the steed we used on the Mexican border. He is hard 
to see unless you get a side view, because he is not ex- 
actly what you would call plump. Among his other 
qualifications he is afraid of automobiles and shell 
fire. As both of these are common articles (we are 
near the roads) you can imagine what a good time I 
have. When he hears a shell coming he begins to shiver 
and shake, and when the shell bursts he leaps sideways 
into the ditch. When he hears a machine coming he 
stops until it gets even with him and then wheels, 
plunges and lies down. This horse makes walking a 
pleasure. 

But this poor beast has been my friend, and I feel 
compassion for him, for the same shell that got me 
upset the ''critter" and rendered him sure enough 
"hors" de combat. 

May 14 — ^Well here I am with a bandage around my 
head and another around my leg, wounded in the big- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 65 

gest show of the war and now lying up in the best hos- 
pital in the world. I have borrowed pen and paper 
from one of the nurses to write you a line about the 
little affair. By the time this reaches you, you will 
have learned already of my being slightly wounded. 
It happened when I got too close to a bursting shell. 
I received a scalp injury above my left ear and a flesh 
wound on the left thigh. Neither one of them amounts 
to much but Red Cross people lost no time in giving 
me first aid and shipping me back to this hospital. 

It only took about three hours in all for me to be hit, 
transferred about twenty miles to the rear in a Ford 
ambulance, have the pieces of steel cut out and sink 
into sound sleep enjoying ether dreams. I thought the 
stretcher bearers were making a mistake when the am- 
bulance stopped in front of this mansion. They took 
me up the marble steps and in past the bronze doors. 
I was afraid to take a deep breath for fear I would 
wake myself up. They put me down in a big hall. 

A lady comes up and sticks a cigarette in my mouth, 
lights it and remarks, "After you have had your bath 
you mil just get in bed in time for your breakfast." 
And Sherman said war was hell! This good hospital 
is operated by the French, and is one grand relief after 
being so long in dugouts and billets. Six others share 
this good ward with me — an English officer, a doctor 
from the foreign legion, an American lieutenant in the 
aviation, another lieutenant of artillery, a captain of a 
machine gun battalion, and a signal corps major. A 
sister of M. Clemenceau is a nurse in this ward, or at 
least she is around a great deal. She is a noble char- 
acter. She has been decorated three times for service, 
and has such a motherly nature that one can feel her 
presence in the room even if one is sleeping. She 



66 BUTLER COLLEGE 

speaks a little English, and says our men are splendid 
and show wonderful spirit and courage in the hos- 
pitals. I do not expect to be here long. I should be 
back for duty in a week. 

May 16 — This is only my fourth day in the hospital, 
and I already feel like an old-timer at this game. I 
would be enjoying myself thorough^ mth little to do 
but sleep in absolute silence on downy pilloAvs, if it 
were not for the thought that somebody back home 
might get a report of my injury and worry. But I 
guess there is bound to be some worrying during this 
whole war. I am well taken care of, and by the time 
you see these words I shall probably be back with the 
battery, where I will try not to get wounded again. 
But be assured of this fact, if either Paul or I get in- 
jured, or if any one in America fears for the injury of 
his son, remember the Red Cross is taking good care 
of us. I know now what I am talking about. 

Some American nurses dropped in to see us. They 
were the first American girls I had seen since I left 
New York eight months ago. One of them gave me a 
tablet from which this sheet is torn. One gave cigar- 
ettes and they all donated flowers and oranges. They 
were ''some gang," with lots of pep and fun. Another 
bright period in the history of my stay here was when 
my friend, the aviator, whose bunk is next to mine, 
was visited by his group of brother aviators. That 
also was ''some gang." They shook this old hospital 
from stem to stern. I guess they violated all the known 
rules of the institution. They insisted on seeing the 
wounded man's injuries, they ate the cookies the nurses 
had brought him, they scuffled mthin reason with him 
and with me and with one another and generally had a 
"swell" time. They were a fine group of young fel- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 67 

lows, full of life and every one of them (there were 
seven) had a decoration of some kind and some had all 
of them. Their stay was prolonged, possibly in the 
hope that the fair nurses would come in, but the nurses 
know better and had important work in other wards 
where the really sick and suffering are receiving their 
tenderest care. We get along so well in this ward that 
we really don't need much attention and they give us 
pretty much our own way. 

May 18 — We have here a French aviator that was 
wounded the other day when six Germans attacked 
him. He was far over the Boche lines but he won his 
way back to safety, bringing some important photo- 
graphs along. He was hit in the leg by a machine gun 
bullet but the Croix de Guerre he is now sporting on 
his night shirt (it was brought in to him last night) 
seems more than to make up for his injury. I find 
myself in good condition. My head is almost healed 
up but my leg is going to keep me here for some time. 
They don 't allow wounds to heal up in a hurry. They 
keep them open, making them heal up solidly from the 
bottom. I have plenty of time to think of you folks 
back home, tearing down strawberry shortcakes every 
day. Well, don't worry about us. We are also having 
a good time. Pretty soon I will be allowed to go out 
into the park, and later on into town — oh, boy ! After 
six months in the mud — look out ! 

May 23 — I have been transferred from Hospital 
No. 1 and am now at Base Hospital No. 34. Part of 
my time is spent now in wondering if I am justified in 
cursing my leg. It is not painful at all but will take 
time to heal. Somebody tells me I can count on a 
month, which is quite a disgusting admission to have 
to make. The wound itself as made by a shell frag- 



68 BUTLER COLLEGE 

ment was small, but the doctor had to do a deal of cut- 
ting to get it and so I have to sit around now and 
wait for the blankety blank cut to get well. 

The wounds around my ear have healed, but I guess 
I shall have a couple of beauty spots there. At any 
rate those scars shall be treated with all due respect. 
It is a rather hard job to lie in a hospital, even as good 
a one as this is, far away from the battery, when one 
knows that they are holding the line, and that every 
man could be of some help (at least he always think^ 
so) if he were there. The country about here is beau- 
tiful. I am not so far from the old school where I spent 
my first three months in France. I didn't think I 
would be going back along the same line some day on a 
stretcher. Neither did I think that day we "went to Ft, 
Harrison that just a year to a day from that date I 
would be taking a ride in an ambulance over here. 
However, I am willing to take another ride in it if it 
will help win the war. We are not afraid of being 
wounded, because we know of the good treatment of the 
hospitals. Well, the doctor is here to probe around in 
that leg. I might not use strictly classical or Sunday 
school language if I wrote during his explorations and 
so I close and give him the right of way. 

Emmett W. Gans, a. B. '87: War Trade Board, 
Washington, D. C. June, 1918. While location here 
deprives me of the pleasure of returning for Com- 
mencement, it gives a wide opportunity for duty of a 
sterner sort. The war, with its main objective well 
defined, and to accomplish which every energy of the 
nation is bending, has withal resulted in a general 
awakening of the nation on innumerable collateral sub- 
jects. The giant is finding his real strength — his real 



IN THE WORLD WAR 69 

domestic duties, long left undone. The citizen long 
unthinkingly accepting the advantages of this benefi- 
cial republic is now awakening to the fact that he has 
obligations to perform. 

The interesting and gratifying feature is that the 
tremendous tasks now forced by necessity on the gov- 
ernment in myriad fields, in large part, are producing 
results of lasting benefit. In controlling the com- 
merce of the country, fundamental trade information 
is obtained that will give us the key to a future pros- 
perity of untold magnitude and benefit. The require- 
ments of the government for trained men and women 
have opened fields of activity of unmeasurable extent. 
It is no longer ^'What shall we do?" but, "Where shall 
we get the people who can do ? " 

And the way our citizens are responding to this call 
would make any one's patriotic zeal rise to fever heat. 
A constant stream of patriots apply for the privilege 
of ''doing anything they can" — and, given the oppor- 
tunity, they do. Millionaires and day laborers work 
side by side in many places. Men who count their an- 
nual income in seven figures, work sixteen hours a day 
at routine work and are a brilliant example to the 
young plodder. There can be only one outcome to the 
activities of a nation thus awakened ! 

And the college graduate — this is his day! Kaiser 
Bill is the Moses who has led the college graduate into 
his promised land ! 

The college man and woman are wanted by the mili- 
tary of all branches, by Government departments of 
all kinds, by Red Cross activities, by manufacturers 
of newly discovered industries — and our dear lady 
friends not so favored are in such demand that the 
individual is lost in the demand for hundreds, thou- 



70 BUTLER COLLEGE 

sands, tens of thousands, in many departments, and 
the demand seems still as great as ever. 

It is a world disaster that, like all others, gives end- 
less openings to the men it develops. It is a lifetime 
opportunity I am grateful to have, and which in some 
measure compensates for the tension of duties and 
separation from many good friends. To the college 
people this is their opportunity and like loyal alumni 
you are all rising to the occasion. Before another anni- 
versary let us hope it will be lasting peace, so we can 
all get together again. 

Seegeant Murray Mathews, A. B. '13: I am up 
here (Vancouver) as a sergeant in the Spruce Produc- 
tion division of the Air Service of the army. We are 
making soldiers out of men who cannot pass the over- 
seas examination, and then are sending them to the 
forests of Oregon and Washington to get out spruce 
for aeroplanes. While this work is hardly that of a 
real soldier, it is absolutely necessary, as the aero- 
plane is playing a very important part in the war now. 
Once a month an overseas examination is given and it 
is surprising how many men become physically perfect 
after a turn in the woods. Of course our base hospitals 
are full of men who have been operated on to make 
them better men, and they in turn soon join a regiment 
for overseas duty. The Government is doing a wonder- 
ful work for the country by having this camp here, in 
that thousands of men have been given medical service 
(which they never would have had in civil life) and are 
turned out cured. 

Newton C. Browder, A. B. '16: For two years I 
have been attending the Harvard Medical School. Last 





CARLOS WATKINS BONHAM 
Major, 15th Field Artillery 



WILLIAM R. MATHEWS 

Captain, 5th United States 

Marines 





PAUL HENRY MOORE 

Private, Medical Corps, 

22nd Engineers 



MYRON MATHIAS HUGHEL 

Lieutenant, S06th Pioneer 

Infantry 



IN THE WORLD WAR 71 

January the Government had all medical students en- 
listed in the Medical Reserve Corps, so that they could 
finish their course. There seems to be a great short- 
age of doctors, and the Government does not want us 
drafted. It seems as if our four years would never 
end. It makes one feel almost like a slacker, when he 
knows all the other boys have gone. Some of the medi- 
cal students have enlisted anyway, against the advice 
of the authorities; and often I feel that I cannot stay 
out of the war any longer. 

Lieutenant Earl T. Bonham, A. B. '20: It is still 
my good fortune to be on the front — the place very 
much coveted by a vast number of anxious and chafing 
true-blooded American lads, eager to take their chance 
with the Hun. They sometimes think that they are too 
young and inexperienced to tackle a veteran like the 
Boche, but the same kind of fine young fellows have 
been initiated daily only to learn that they are individ- 
ually equal to him and in their own minds confident 
that they are superior. We must give the adversary 
his just dues, though, for he is a worthy opponent ex- 
cept for his absolute disregard or ignorance of fair 
play. This latter characteristic has cost many a Ger- 
man life which might have been and undoubtedly would 
have been spared had his opponent any faith in him. 

There is no need for worry, and, while some may not 
return, they will not have remained in vain, for victory 
is more inevitable every day. It is a hard struggle, 
but one the result of which will be a thousand times 
worth the effort. * * * 

Corporal Edward S. Wagoner, '20: I have just re- 
turned from the evening services at the "Y. " Heard 



72 BUTLER COLLEGE 

a talk by a private. It is the second talk I have heard 
from the doughboys here, and both talks have im- 
pressed me more than any others I have heard since 
we 've been at the front. The beauty about them is that 
they can 't hand out a word that they are not sincere in, 
for their audience is the men they live with twenty-four 
hours a day and they would be mobbed for hypocrisy 
if they were not sincere. 

The first fellow I heard was a small, cross-eyed 
young man who showed all signs of having bucked the 
most stubborn battle that the game of life offers. His 
voice was slightly more audible than a loud whisper. 
Dave Brown — his name alone gives the picture. He 
had no wonderful command of the Bible, but what he 
knew he knew, and is making a brave attempt to live 
up to it. A tear dimmed the eye of almost every fellow 
throughout the talk. This is sufficient proof of his 
sincerity. 

The talk tonight was better, was given by one who 
seems to have had more of a chance in life. It was 
just as impressive, perhaps for the same reason. 

These fellows, and there are many more of them, are 
doing an invaluable good to us all. We are rapidly 
coming to realize that this war has been brought not 
upon us, but upon the people of the world, wholly 
through our sins. It is a war of incalculable man- 
power, in which God is going to mn a distinct victory. 
This fact is the thing that is bringing us to our senses. 
This is why there is such a noticeable change in the 
American young men, especially those over here. The 
lesson is becoming exceedingly practical. We are 
learning rapidly that a victory against sin is a far 
greater step toward home and final peace than the 
taking of the helmets of a hundred Boches. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 73 

I am sure we will win a big victory because it has 
been shown that our principles are by far cleaner than 
our enemy's ; but the great victory is going to be God's 
over mankind. The great element which is uncovering 
this valuable fact is the Y. M. C. A. It is the Associa- 
tion which rounds up such as I have heard, and they 
are the means of spreading its influence. 

I hope that in a few days we mil be helping in the 
big war. It will be our golden opportunity and I think 
we'll show up well. At least we are seasoned and all 
are anxious to go. 

[Edward's wish was realized. He did ''help in the 
big war." After weeks in a base hospital the follow- 
ing letter was sent to a friend.] 

I have been lying here all afternoon trying to think 
of something to write that might be of interest to you. 
I could tell you how that "210 H. E." shell accidentally 
found my hiding place, but you have probably heard 
that a dozen times already. And I might tell you of 
the fine vacation I have had since then in the hospitals 
with the nurses, and riding around France on a hos- 
pital train, but all this stuff is secondary to the fun we 
are having. At the time I left the gang we were chas- 
ing those Dutch scoundrels so fast that we couldn't 
keep up with them. One evening, after we had advanced 
all day, we asked some fellows along the road where 
the front was. *'It was about a mile up the road from 
here this morning, but I don 't know how far it is now, ' ' 
was the reply. Well, it took us three days to get there, 
and they weren't nearly finished when I left. I'm 
going to get back in time to help run 'em some more. 

Lieutenant MacCrea Stephenson, '12: Clermont 
Ferrand, July 15, 1918. Never have I been in better 



74 BUTLER COLLEGE 

spirits than now. We are enjoying life as we never 
have before in this beautiful place. 

Our work is very interesting and to my notion more 
businesslike in the thing we are training for than chase 
or pursuit work. Our planes are large and fast and 
very satisfactory in every way and as two men go up 
in these ships, it takes away the loneliness of mono- 
plane work. The man I am teamed with is a splendid, 
capable fellow from Keokuk, Iowa. His name is Lester 
Harter and he is the real thing. I believe we will be 
able to give a proper account of ourselves if we can 
once get at it. 

One cannot help getting the French spirit out here 
and a desire to get out there tout de suite or sooner. 
These people have certainly carried their burden ad- 
mirably and to sit in front of a cafe and watch them, 
it is really difficult to realize what is and has hap- 
pened. Even the blesse does not bring home the fact 
of the suffering there must be some place. Such a 
thing is not apparent any place that I have been. 

We had quite a royal reception on the Fourth of 
July. The guests of the Royal Palace Hotel were our 
hosts and hostesses and such a party only the French 
people could give and at this time when they feel so 
keenly what we are trying to do. 

Yesterday being the French Independence Day we 
expected a repetition of our celebration, but I think 
their desire to entertain us and their curiosity in seeing 
so many American soldiers on permission that day, for 
it seemed as if the whole army were here, accounts for 
their more modest demonstration. 

We flew over the city in a formation of six and shot 
flare pistols with colored stars as our part of their 
morning parades and our artillery stationed in and 



IN THE WORLD WAR 75 

around here paraded and as usual was generously 
applauded. Outside of the prices we have to pay, it is 
almost like being a real hero wherever an American 
goes. 

Being back of the war zone is fine for the pleasures 
we can enjoy, but a restless existence, especially when 
there is so much of importance going on. 

After I have been up there and feel that I have ac- 
complished something I will be glad to get back in the 
rear probably, but until then I want to go and square a 
few difficulties with the Hun and probably will before 
the summer is over. You must not allow anyone to 
worry you about my safety. I hope you will not for it 
gains us nothing. True there is a hazard, but why 
think of it! That does not alleviate the risk and just 
think of the much greater risk and drudgery the many 
infantrymen are enduring every day, even in training. 
Our chances are much better than theirs ; in fact we 
have much in our favor, for in our work we can really 
destroy a lot compared to the price we might pay^ and 
therefore at all costs the game is worth while. Please 
remember that what I am trying to do, is a necessity 
and if we worry about things nothing is accomplished. 
Let's take the French spirit in this thing and realize 
the consequences of lack of action and risk. 

As I glance back over those last sentences, I fear you 
may think I am trying to prepare you for some great 
risk I am about to take. Nothing of the sort, for I have 
taken far more chance in other schools of training than 
here. True enough, I may not get back soon, but I'll be 
there to ride in the new electric and then, as Briggs the 
cartoonist says, "What a grand and glorious feeling!" 

I wouldn't trade places with Methuselah to avoid a 
draft or the opportunity of being here now, for regard- 



76 BUTLER COLLEGE 

less of consequences, I feel that from a purely selfish 
viewpoint, I have gained more than I can lose in expe- 
rience. 

Lieutenant J. T. C. McCallum, A. B. '16: After 
many wanderings and sojournings, but mainly wan- 
derings, I am able to write to you and say that I have 
been in one place for ten days. It was a trip we had ! 
Naturally, with a bunch of rookies there was plenty of 
hard work, but all the same there was pleasure along 
with it. The voyage across was great. Very few were 
sick, for which the size of the boat and the calmness of 
the sea were responsible. We traveled in first-class 
staterooms on a great Atlantic liner ; and ate — my, but 
I ate enough for ten. So you see Uncle Sam mixes a 
party in with hard and tiresome work. I could not but 
feel what a time a fellow might have on the same boat 
in peace times. As it was, we had some lords and 
ladies on board. I must say that I never gave the subs 
a thought, although one lieutenant in our stateroom 
was almost scared stiff. Poor fellow — and he expects 
to make a machine gun officer of himself, too. 

We made a brief stay in England and I saw a good 
deal of the country. Fortunately the weather was per- 
fect and everything appeared at its best. It is un- 
doubtedly a beautiful and well-kept little country. One 
does not see any men except real old men and broken 
down and wounded soldiers, and yet every hedge and 
garden is in perfect condition. The women of England 
are certainly doing their part nobly. One sees more 
men in France than in England, in fact I believe that 
England shows the signs of war more than does 
France. * * * 

I am liking this place. We passed within the roll of 



IN THE WORLD WAR 77 

thunder from the guns one day, August 8th, when the 
English made their big drive, but since then I have 
been out of range. We are now waiting our turn and 
working hard on our guns. 

The towns in which we are located are quaint old 
places Avith narrow, winding streets and solid stone 
houses. Nearly every village has its chateau which 
dates back to the twelfth century. We have our head- 
quarters in a chateau here, and our official entrance 
is over the royal moat and through the royal arch. And 
my! you should hear the stories that our boys tell about 
it. You see we have to censor the letters and we get 
the full benefit of them. It has been the headquarters 
of every military leader from Coeur de Lion on down 
to Jeanne D'Arc, Napoleon included, as well as some 
old Irish chieftains. 

This is one of the gardens of France — vineyards on 
all sides. Wish some of the boys and girls could be 
here to enjoy the moonlight of the beautiful region. I 
want to talk to somebody who can understand my lingo. 

Sergeant Robert L. Larsh, '20 : I'm way back from 
the front now for a short rest, where I cannot even 
hear the rumble of the guns. 

It has been very beautiful, sunny France for sure, 
but today it is raining hard and is disagreeable for 
nearly everything except writing and reading. We are 
living in barracks, supposedly rain-proof, but I'm sit- 
ting in between drops now. My mess cup is about half 
full — water which was intended for my bed; but this 
is not bad — just part of it. * * * 

The Quarterly was late in coming. I have just fin- 
ished reading Dr. Mackenzie's address, and it is need- 
less to say that it has helped me to see things differ- 



78 BUTLER COLLEGE 

ently. I think I'm like the rest of the boys. I get tired 
of this over here, disgusted mth the life, and rather 
lose sight of what we are here for, the big ideals we 
are fighting for. Reading this address today makes 
it all clearer and easier. Of course we are all game to 
the end, but it does get a^vfully tiresome. Some of the 
things I have seen on this last big push will stay ^\dth 
me always. It leaves bitterness in the heart against 
the Hun. 

Some of the French people are left in a very pitiful 
state. Even as far back as we are, we see the women 
out in the wheat fields gleaning. They go along and 
rake up or pick up the loose wheat, and, maybe, after 
a few hours they are able to gather a very small bundle. 
However, they seem happy, nevertheless. The people 
nearer the front are the ones affected most. We passed 
through any number of small towns which are laid in 
absolute waste. Upon our return, we saw these poor 
people returning and trying to take up life again — a 
hopeless task, it seemed to me. 

Danny has gone away with his detail to a wireless 
school. He'll be gone about three weeks. All of us 
are getting along finely. Eddie Wagoner was pretty 
severely wounded, but is getting along all right, from 
what I can find out. 

Lieutenant HiLTOisr U. Brown, Jr., '19 : Recent de- 
velopments have caused me to delay the finishing of 
this letter, and since I left off I have had some great 
experiences. I came as near being killed as I ever will 
come if I am in war a hundred years. I was mounted 
on a horse last night, about 9 o'clock, preparing to go 
on a little expedition, w^hen all of a sudden a shell burst 
directly under my horse. I did not know what hap- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 79 

pened until fifteen minutes later, when I awoke, suf- 
fering from fright more than anything else, and was 
told. My horse was literally disemboweled, a fragment 
going entirely through him, and only stopping when 
it struck the steel saddletree. I am none the worse for 
it, not even shell shock, but the horse was my own, a 
great friend of mine, and I feel as if I had lost a close 
companion. 

If the shell had burst ten feet away I undoubtedly 
would have been torn to pieces by fragments, or 
shocked insane. But the faithful old brute saved my 
life. I have thought a good many times today of the 
experience and I want to tell you that I have prayed 
to God several times, thanking Him for His mercy. 

This story sounds rather ^' fishy," doesn't itf But 
while I know of no other escapes any more miraculous, 
one happened in my company today. A shell came into 
a trench in which two of my men were observing, but 
it failed to explode. If it had, we would never have 
known what became of them. But God was mth us 
and not ' ' Gott mit uns. ' ' I might say that only about 
one-twentieth of 1 per cent, of the shells fired fail to 
function. 

I am inclosing a picture post card which I took 
from a German prisoner. They are not allowed to keep 
things of this character and usually they make good 
souvenirs for us. Our men are from every State in the 
Union and many foreign countries and I have not as 
yet run across any from home except a reserve officer. 
I have many good mshes for the continued success and 
future of old Butler and may her sons distinguish 
themselves so as to do credit to her name. 

Last night the Germans gassed us and gas is the 
most terrible thing a soldier has to deal with. We 



80 BUTLER COLLEGE 

think we are pretty well trained in gas defense, which 
we are, but Fritz pulled a new one on us. Heretofore, 
gas has been sent over in regular gas shells, which do 
not make much of an explosion and which can readily 
be told from high explosives. But this new one is to 
combine gas with high explosive and he caught us 
unaware. Every time I get around gas I am more 
afraid of the devilish stuff. Ask any soldier whether 
he would rather be shelled or gassed and he will invari- 
ably tell you, '^Give me shell, any time." 

You can't appreciate its dastardly work until you see 
some of its victims, and then your blood boils within 
you and your animal or brute instinct arises, and you 
think of what you would like to do to every squarehead 
this side of hell. Only a while ago I put this proposi- 
tion up to one of my officers: If we should be vic- 
torious and succeed in bringing Germany to her knees, 
would it not be justice, after stamping out everything 
that savors of German kultur, to divide the country up 
among several different nations ? 

Of course this would be justice to them, all right, but 
it would defeat the purpose and ideal for which we are 
fighting. It is only a sample of my thoughts, brought 
on by their hellish warfare, but I tell it to you to let you 
know what I think of them. 

Probably the censor will delete most of this, but I 
want to appeal to you as an American patriot to do all 
in your power to hurry the people along. It seems that 
they have been lagging, in a measure. Do you realize 
that Germany is making her final and colossal effort 
this summer to win? We are holding them now, but 
by a mighty effort, as you mil know when you see the 
casualty lists. I tell you this is not the prattle of a 
pessimist or an alarmist, but a plain statement of facts. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 81 

The Americans have fought vahantly and in our sec- 
tor have advanced several kilometers. They have sur- 
prised the French and brought forth much praise from 
every one, including General Pershing. They have to 
fight valiantly, because they are up against good sol- 
diers who supplement their work by all the devices that 
are forbidden in civilized warfare, and it is a question 
of self-preservation. 

I have often thought of what a godsend this war has 
been to our country. It has given us time to at least 
present an army formidable enough to make a credit- 
able defense of our land ; but I think if the French and 
British are defeated, what a menace this German mon- 
ster will be to us. We will have been the gainers in the 
end if it costs us a million men. And here is one who is 
willing to be one of those, if the Germans are com- 
pletely defeated and subdued and a lasting peace is 
assured. 

I wish you could be here long enough to see the spirit 
of the officers and men. They are well fed, well 
clothed, have all the necessities, but they are always 
up against great odds. You know that normally 
one American can whip two Germans because he has 
right and liberty on his side. But when they put three 
or more against him he would be doing the impossible 
to vanquish them. Perhaps ere this reaches you the 
lists of unfortunates will have been published. 

I ask you, do you think these lists will spur the people 
to a greater activity? The question is really unneces- 
sary for I know the answer. But these sacrifices are 
really pitiful. If we were reinforced, perhaps the lists 
would be normal. It might be of interest to tell you 
that we captured 350 prisoners today, but that is a 
mere drop in the bucket. You undoubtedly know that 



82 BUTLER COLLEGE 

we are having open warfare, no longer trenches and 
dugouts and the like, for the line is changing every 
day and no one can really define its limit on the map. 

Corporal William E. Hacker, A. B. '16: We've 
been over the top. We were relieved yesterday after 
several days' action, and on one of these days, or rather 
nights, we led off an attack in cooperation with the 
tanks and went ' ' over the top. ' ' We helped start the 
Huns on the run, and they're still running. French 
cavalry started after them after the units with which 
we were working were given relief, so it's said, rode 
at a gallop for twelve kilometers before they found the 
dirty Huns. I can't begin to describe it all; it's too 
big a story — too cruel, too full of pathos, suffering, 
wonder, thrills, bravery, sacrifice, horror. Yet it's a 
nightly experience, one that calls for every fibre of 
manhood that's in a man, and shows up every atom of 
cowardice. We came out of that attack with fewer 
men than we went in with, who, though tired, hungry, 
torn, and dirty, were unbroken in spirit. One would 
hardly imagine a man could be calm under such cir- 
cumstances, but he is — at least that was my experience. 
Fears of death are dispelled and, somehow or other, 
dogged determination to see it through or die in the 
attempt takes the place of everything. 

I 've lived a thousand years in the last few days. I 've 
seen enough already to repay me for my several 
months of training and all. One can't realize what a 
vast machine this military business is. The roads, 
which by the way are all wonderfully good, except for 
occasional holes, are busy with continuous streams, one 
moving each way, every minute of the day and night — 
ammunition trains, ambulances, troops, supply wag- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 83 

ons. The villages through this sector are mostly ruins, 
the fields blotched with shell holes, every hill with a 
series of dugouts or trenches, the ground yellow in 
many places where the dreaded mustard or yellow 
cross gas shells have struck. But we don't call it '' No- 
Man's Land" any more. It's France, and France it 
will be, for the Germans are meeting their Waterloo 
now. They hate the Americans worst of all. They 
call us "hell dogs," and it's the Americans, more than 
any, they're scared of. I think the Yanks have put 
some pep in the ''Blue Devils," the French, for they 
are fighting as they never fought before. Their most 
common greeting for the Americans is "Boche Finis" 
— the Germans are being finished — and we believe 
they are. You might believe this as strongly as we do 
if you would see some of the prisoners, how starved 
and poorly dressed they look, how glad they are to be 
prisoners and get good meals and rest. They are cry- 
ing "Kamerad" by the hundreds, their hands thrown 
up as the Americans advance on them. Then, if you 
had seen German women among these prisoners who 
had been chained to machine guns and forced to fight, 
or boys thirteen or fourteen years old, and old men, 
you might think, too, it's "Boche Finis." 

But the Boches are still in the game and they're still 
putting up a deuce of a lot of fighting. The Americans 
don't mind the beggars in a hand-to-hand clash — 
they're easy pickin' then, but they do dread their big 
artillery barrages and their gas. I had the pleasure of 
wading through several of these barrages, jumping 
from shell hole to shell hole, and I got a taste of their 
gas, but not enough to affect me. I got mustard gas on 
my clothes, and had to cut most of my pants away to 
keep it from soaking through and burning my skin. I 



84 BUTLER COLLEGE 

thought of every mean thing I ever did in my life dur- 
ing these few days, and repeated over, time and again, 
''The sins ye have committed two by two ye shall pay 
for one by one. ' ' 

Well, I 've written more than the censor will ever let 
by now, although I don 't feel as if I have said a thing. 
Give my regards to all my friends. 

John W. Baritett, A. B. '94: Next to serving with 
our men in this world-war is to serve them. As I hap- 
pened to be born too soon to get into khaki and serve 
with them, the best I could do was to don the same 
khaki and go as their servant. I chose the Y. M. C. A. 
as the medium through which I should serve, and I am 
not ashamed of the uniform I have worn for a year and 
a half in that service, overseas and at home^ in spite of 
the petty criticisms that are being made against the 
''Y" in certain quarters. 

It was my good fortune to be assigned to work in 
England ; not for the reason that some not conversant 
with the facts might think: immunity from attack by 
the Huns — a reason very far from the truth, for I saw 
more of Hun warfare in London, and was in more real 
danger, than many <'Y" men in France. We had 
about a dozen big air-raids during the four months I 
spent in London, and at times I was entirely too near 
the Hun bombs and falling shrapnel to be altogether 
comfortable. But my reason is a very different one : 
I got there a very much wider range of vision of the 
war than I could have gotten anywhere else. 

My first station was at Eagle Hut in London. Eagle 
Hut is the biggest single bit of work the American Y. 
M. C. A. is doing overseas. It is situated on the 
Strand, in the heart of the city, and is the meeting 



IN THE WORLD WAR 85 

place for all of the Allied soldiers and sailors, as well 
as our own. While it is an American institution, brim- 
ful of American spirit, it is open to all of the Allied 
forces on exactly the same terms as to our own ; I guess 
that is, after all, the American spirit. At any rate they 
like it, for they come by the tens of thousands: Tom- 
mies, Canadians, Australians, New" Zealanders, South 
Africans, Indians, French, Belgians, Italians. I met 
and talked with all of them there, and saw the war in 
its reaction in their minds and lives. I have seen them 
right from the trenches, some of them on their first 
leave in two years; and we got their first reactions. 
And I have seen them come from the great hospitals of 
London, legless, armless, blind, gassed, and maimed 
beyond description, yet unconquered in spirit. It was 
there, as I served these men, that I got my vision of 
the war in its far-flung battle line : of Mons, even the 
first battle, for I have had the honor of shaking hands 
with a few of the very few survivors of "The Old 
Contemptibles," of Cambria, of Lens, of Arras, of 
Vimy Ridge, of Ypres, where, in the second engage- 
ment, "Canada earned her D. S. 0. and breathless 
Allied prayers," of Rhcims, of the Aisne and the 
Marne, of Verdun, mtli its immortal "lis ne passeront 
pas," and all the rest of the places in Belgium and 
France, of which the Boche, in his mad desire to rule 
the world, has made "a veritable inferno"; besides, 
something of that Italian collapse, and recovery, the 
full truth of which has not yet been told, and as I heard 
a prominent Italian say, "had better not be told," of 
unfortunate Gallipoli, where the flower of the Austra- 
lian army perished, and of the campaign in Mesopo- 
tamia and Palestine, with a few letters from one of our 
American boys who is serving in the British army in 



86 BUTLER COLLEGE 

far-off India; — some compensation, indeed, for the 
long days and longer nights I spent in trying to make 
the lives of these fellows a little more endurable. 

I saw comparatively few of our own soldiers there — 
many more came later, as our Aviation training camps 
were established in England, and as our troops were 
sent across in greater numbers, — but I did have the 
privilege of meeting and serving large numbers of our 
sailor boys as they came on leave from Liverpool, 
Queenstown, and other British ports. And I always 
put in a word for our boys in blue, for the fact is the 
navy has not had its fair share of praise in this war. 
The majority of our people, I fear, think of the war in 
terms of khaki ; — at least they do until their attention 
is called to the fact that, but for the navy, and the Brit- 
ish navy, we never could have gotten our soldiers to 
France. Many of the heroes in this war are wearing 
blue ; and some who did wear it have gone doAvn doing 
their bit in the service of God and humanity with the 
same glory as those have won who fell in the trenches. 
From long service mth them at Eagle Hut, and now 
for six months on the Receiving Ship at Boston, I 
know what a splendid lot of fellows they are, these 
boys who man our battleships and destroyers and 
mine-sweepers, and whose life last winter in the North 
and Irish seas was anything but a picnic. Oh, how 
these boys did appreciate Eagle Hut. ' ' Our American 
Home" is what they affectionately call it. 

Nor was it only a vision of battlefields and battle- 
ships that I got at Eagle Hut ; it was something bigger 
far than these : as I talked with those men I found that 
they are very like ourselves — thinking the same 
thoughts, fighting the same battles, and translating, 
more or less imperfectly, the same ideals into reality. 



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I realized there, as never before, the truth of Kipling's 
lines : 

Oh, East is East, and West is West and never the twain shall meet, 
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; 
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed nor Birth, 
When two strong men stand face to face, though they came from the 
ends of the earth. 

I came from that fellowship with a wider horizon, 
and with more faith in our common humanity and in 
the coming of the Kingdom of God. 

After four months at Eagle Hut I was sent down to 
our big American Rest Camp near the ancient city of 
Winchester, where every foot of ground has been 
tramped by soldiers' feet for centuries. There, in the 
shadow of the monument of Alfred the Great, I saw at 
least a quarter of a million of our American soldiers on 
their way to France. What a sight ! Men from every 
section of the country and from every walk of life; 
splendid fellows, full of enthusiasm, and with the spirit 
of the Crusaders. And what an impression ! During 
the weeks following March 18, 1918, when the great 
German drive was on, and gaining headway every day, 
the hearts of the English people sank within them, and 
they were in almost hopeless despair. Then came that 
long, long trail of American soldiers, singing as they 
came, and with a deep set purpose in their souls ; and 
England saw and took courage. The transformation 
was wonderful. I have often wondered whether the 
War Department realized just what the sending of so 
many of our troops through England meant; whether 
it was planned, or, whether it was just the force of cir- 
cumstances that took them that way. Whatever it was, 
it meant more toward the winning of the war than we 



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realize. The English people could have read that there 
were a million American soldiers in France, but that 
would not have done for England what seeing a hun- 
dred thousand of them did. When England saw them 
she caught their spirit; then that spirit was trans- 
ferred to the British army in France; and with the 
same thing happening in France, the inevitable hap- 
pened: the Hun forces could not withstand the power 
of the revived Allied armies plus the force of America, 
and they threw up their hands and quit. 

Our men did not tarry long in this camp ; only for a 
few days, except in the case of the Tuscania survivors, 
whom we had for six weeks. It was only a rest camp, 
— ''Yes, we rest our stomachs," they said, for they 
were on English rations while there, and English ra- 
tions during the spring and early summer of 1918 were 
not very filling. But what English rations lacked, the 
"Y" tried to make up. It was a joy to serve these fel- 
lows. Many of them were away from home for the 
first time ; practically all of them in a foreign land for 
the first time; so we tried to help them through the 
strangeness, complicated by the intricate mysteries of 
English money; and their appreciation was un- 
bounded. I served them in many ways, but as I look 
back to it all now I am convinced that the greatest 
service I rendered was in visiting the sick in the hos- 
pitals, for many of them fell ill on the way, with mumps 
and measles, with colds that in many instances resulted 
in pneumonia, and with various other human ailments. 
Many of them were unable to go on with their units; 
some recovered and followed later, but some never 
were able to go. And these were the men for whom I 
felt most sorry : sick, homesick, disappointed, discour- 
aged, laid by while their comrades went on to do what 



IN THE WORLD WAR 89 

these men as well had set out to do. Many of them 
died there. I ministered to them in their last hours, 
and conducted the services as we laid what was mortal 
of them to rest in the kindly soil of the Mother Coun- 
try, grateful for the sons of the Pilgrims returning 
after many years to stand side by side with her brave 
sons in the fight for a better world. Then followed 
letters, sad letters they were, to the home folks, telling 
them all I could about their boys, and how they had 
died for Freedom and for God. 

Oh, there is much I would hke to tell about our boys 
* ' over there ; ' ' — the special days : Thanksgiving Day 
(1917), Christmas, Easter, Decoration Day, the Fourth 
of July (the Fourth of July in England) ! — but I have 
already far exceeded the limits of the space alloted 
me, and so must forbear. I will say this only: I came 
back home with a new vision of America and with a 
new love for her, and a new hope in her ; to see our boys 
over there is to be assured that the spirit of Liberty is 
not dead in our land, and that it will yet enlighten the 
world. 

I want to add a word about England, for a part of 
my vision of the war includes England. I went over 
with something of that narrow prejudice that I fear the 
majority of Americans have toward England, due to 
the fact that our historians have not told us the whole 
truth about the American Revolution ; but after a year 
of intimate association with the English people, and 
from a study of the real facts which this war has 
brought to light, that prejudice has vanished. It would 
take pages to tell all that this involves, and I cannot do 
that now, but I call your attention to a sentence in a 
recent history of England by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 
which is the keynote from which the whole revolution- 



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ary period of history will be rewritten when this war 
is over. In his chapter on The American Revolution, 
Chesterton says : ' ' The American Revolution was the 
protest of an English gentleman, George Washington, 
against the rule of a German king, George III. ' ' The 
fact is that George III was as much of a Prussian as 
the ex-Kaiser, and it was only because he was able to 
bribe his faked Parliament that they passed the laws 
that were so obnoxious to the Colonies, and against 
which William Pitt and all true Englishmen protested, 
that the Colonies revolted. That it was a good thing, 
both for the Colonies and for England, that they 
revolted and established this great republic of the 
West, neither we nor England will deny ; and when the 
full truth of it all is told, the two great nations will be 
cemented together all the closer, and the two flags that 
have flown side by side on the House of Parliament 
and on Bunker Hill Monument since this war began 
will never be opposed to each other in battle again. To 
have seen this new day dawn in England, and to feel 
it dawn in my own soul, is no small part of the compen- 
sation that is mine, for any sacrifice T may have made 
in trying to serve, in an humble way, the great Y. M. 
C. A. in its attempts to mitigate the evils of modern 
warfare, and to make the lives of our boys a little safer 
than they otherwise would have been ; and, I am confi- 
dent also, a little bigger and fitter for the great days 
we are facing. 

LiEUTEiirAisrT MacCrea Stephenson, '12: Paris, 
August 24, 1918. We are still aw^aiting orders and ap- 
parently marking time; but with Paris less than an 
hour away and so much to see and do, we are making 
the best of it and thoroughly doing this beautiful his- 
toric city. 




JOSEPH THOMAS CAREY 

McCALLUM 

Lieutenant, 360th Infantry 





P^\ 




EDWARD STEPHENSON 

WAGONER 

Corporal, 150th Field Artillery 





EARL TERENCE BONHAM BASIL NEWITT BASS 

Lieutenant, 7th Field Artillery Lieutenant, 41st Aero Squadron 



IN THE WORLD WAR 91 

There is much the war has closed. The Catacombs 
and the Louvre for instance but the Palace at Ver- 
sailles and its wonderful gardens and countless other 
places are open. There is always some place new and 
interesting to see each time we go in. I have never 
been in such a wonderful city and certainly will never 
miss an opportunity to visit it even though it is only 
for a few hours. To sit on the sidewalk or in front of 
any one of a thousand interesting cafes and just watch 
the people is enough for me. There is a warmth and 
joy in the faces and manner of everyone you see here. 
Of course and beyond all doubt, Paris is Paris, but all 
its vices are more than counterbalanced by its virtues. 

After visiting Versailles I can understand better 
why the people rebelled. You cannot possibly conceive 
of such a magnificent place. It is more what I used to 
imagine a fairy land to be except on the scale of a 
colossal palace. I can't attempt to describe my im- 
pressions, but anything you may have read of its 
beauty is true. Of course all the carving, delicate and 
massive, was done by hand, the hard wood floors with 
wooden pins for nails are, in appearance, as modern as 
those we see today. The paintings are of course espe- 
cially fine and numerous, so many that one wonders 
how even now after hundreds of years it is possible to 
have such a collection. But the gardens and the ter- 
races are a picture. Oh, you must see France and 
Paris ! 

Lieutenant John Paul Ragsdale, '12 : I am sitting 
in my little hut just back of the lines, in delightful soli- 
tude, writing by the light of — I was about to say two 
candles, but one has just burnt out, so there's only one. 
I am quite sure that the much revered President 



92 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Lincoln had nothing on the A. E. F., when it comes to 
candle light. When one has a lamp, he is in luxury; 
and as for electric lights, look out, for if the colonel 
finds it, he '11 surely be after your billet for himself. 

By this time (September 11), no doubt, college will 
have begun. But what a change of faces among the 
men ! I wonder if any of the familiar names are still 
there. Butler has surely lived up to her traditions in 
the noblest manner, and one is proud to think that he 
may be counted as a representative of such a loyal, 
patriotic institution. 

During the spring months, it was my great privilege 
to see some of the college men quite frequently. Dan- 
iels, Larsh, Whitaker, Ed Wagoner, and I were mem- 
bers of many a well-remembered "Butler reunion." 
And of all the enjoyable times that we did have ! Since 
June, however, we have missed these gatherings. 

Variety is the spice of life. Just at this time I feel 
very well seasoned. Our life for several months has 
greatly resembled a checker-board. We have fought 
the Hun here ; then, there ; then a little period of rest 
to get ready for another try at him. And, I am proud to 
say, he has not yet been able to beat us, and from the 
present disposition of our officers and men — their 
high morale, their undaunted courage, their everlast- 
ing up-and-at-them spirit — I do not think the order of 
things will be changed. 

And what a comfort and strength to us to knoAv that 
those at home, those who are dear to us, are pra^tdng 
for our success, are backing us up mth all their 
strength to the last drop, and with their goods to the 
last penny. And I am sure that the time is not far dis- 
tant when those prayers mil be answered and victory 
will crown the Allied arms. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 93 

Now a word about myself. I had been second in 
command of a macliine gun company for some time, 
when, about two weeks ago, I was ordered into regi- 
mental headquarters as assistant adjutant. I had 
served in headquarters once before as inspector, but 
had gone back into the line at my own request and had 
stayed in the line long enough to do my little part in 
driving the Hun back. My work now is very agree- 
able, though also very new, and, consequently, requires 
quite an amount of application and study. However, I 
hope to make good. 

My second candle is burning low and warns me of 
my hour of retiring — which operation, I might state, 
consists of removing one's boots, rolling up in a 
blanket, and mshing for a good old Indiana feather- 
bed. 

Please remember me to all my old college friends 
and tell them we '11 be coming back home soon. 

Lieutenant Whitney R. Spiegel, '18: July 28. — I 
have just come in from seven days of fierce fighting, 
having gone ''over the top" six times. I suppose the 
last two weeks will stand out as the most momentous 
days of my life. Joining a company on the 11th of 
July, going into an attack on the 17th, and being in 
command of the company on the 21st is a pretty full 
week. 

We left for the attack on Tuesday night and went 
''over the top" at 8:20 a. m., Wednesday, July 17th. 
We had to walk through a terrible bombardment, 
which, of course, claimed some victims. The biggest 
miracle to me was that just as I stepped out into "No 
Man's Land," an artillery shell exploded at my feet 
and lifted me up in the air, and, will you believe it, I 



94 BUTLER COLLEGE 

didn't receive a scratch. However, it claimed my cor- 
poral and wounded three other men. We crossed '*No 
Man's Land" and took the village on the other side, 
but the Boche artillery at once started to demolish the 
town and we went on. We lay in a small brook for two 
days, and on Saturday evening we were ' ' over the top ' ' 
again and advanced more than twelve kilometers. You 
have no doubt read all about the fighting, little sus- 
pecting that I was in it. We stopped in a woods Sat- 
urday night and Sunday, and Tuesday night — over 
again. 

It was here that our two lieutenants were slightly 
wounded. This left only the commanding officer and 
myself. Tuesday, just as we were ready to go over 
again, he received word to go back home as an instruc- 
tor and receive promotion to captain. Can you imagine 
a more ''novel" time to receive such an order? This 
left me the only officer in the company, and I am still 
in command. Another lieutenant was sent me yester- 
day, and I expect a captain soon. 

Really, I never saw such game and courageous young 
fellows as are in this company. They kept plodding 
along during those severe days without a whimper 
from one of them. They are now sitting around sing- 
ing and playing. * * * 

There ought to be a law not to take any prisoners but 
to kill them all, as Boche is only good when he is dead. 
They continue to do the same barbarous acts today as 
they did in 1914, and they will continue to do them as 
long as they live. Can you imagine going into a pri- 
vate home, tearing out fine paintings and taking good 
Oriental rugs and putting them in their dugouts? Is 
it a wonder every American wants to kill every Boche 
he sees? 



IN THE WORLD WAR 95 

I thought I was a strong believer in God, but after 
the way I have come out of this, I am a great deal 
stronger, and know that Somebody is watching over 
me. Last Sunday we advanced twelve kilometers on 
the Boche. I put that do^\Ti as the day I did more for 
Christianity than I ever did or hope to do, outside of 
giving my life. 

September 26. — Today is the Big Day. '\Vhen you 
receive this letter, look at the papers and see what hap- 
pened. Our guns are certainly working. The windows 
and walls of this dugout are shattered every time one 
goes off. Here's hoping everything is as successful 
as all in the past six weeks has been, or since July 18. 

Yesterday my promotion to a first lieutenancy came 
through, and I was sworn in. I received a French 
paper yesterday which stated that the British army in 
Palestine had taken 25,000 prisoners, and captured the 
supplies and transportation of two Turkish armies. It 
looks as if the Allies are being crowned with success 
everywhere. There is plenty going on, but I can't tell 
it. In a few days there will be some wonderful news. 

In the Chateau-Thierry, or second battle of the 
Marne, we started at Belleau Wood. Here was our 
worst fighting. I wish you could hear the bombard- 
ment. It is glorious to think the effect this is having 
among the Germans. 

Lieutenant Wood Unger, A. B. '12 : September 27, 
1918. I was slightly wounded in the first great all- 
American drive. I do not know what your press had 
to say about it ; the press here made much of it. I was 
there, an actor on the stage, just doing my bit as well 
as I could. It was terrible to me, for you know I should 



96 BUTLER COLLEGE 

like nothing better than to amble through life enjoying 
only the beautiful ; but I lived more in three hours one 
day than in all the rest of my life up to that time. I 
wish to forget it, but I can not. It was glorious to serve 
with the splendid American manhood here, a privilege 
I well appreciate. Our captain was wounded during 
the first few minutes and I had the company for four 
days until I was hit. When I counted up my losses, it 
hurt. One corporal not all the blood of the best di- 
vision Germany has or will ever have could compensate 
for; I assure you it was with great personal feeling 
that I learned of our casualties. Yet it was glorious, 
wonderful, and, so far as the men were concerned, past 
all praise. Some day, perhaps, I shall see you, but 
never again will you see the old Wood. Sleeping out of 
doors in the rain and mud with no cover, \rithout 
enough to eat and to drink — all this makes men old. 
I do not mean the United States does not feed us, but 
we were in the trenches fifteen days and it was not 
anybody's fault that we were hungry most of the time. 
Many lessons I have learned, none greater than econ- 
omy — not in mere dollars, but in food and other expen- 
ditures as well. 
With a great love for Butler. 

Samuel H. Shank, A. B. '92 : United States Consul, 
Palermo, Italy. My wife and I had a very interesting 
experience in October, visiting the Y. M. C. A. huts 
along the front. We were entertained for three days 
at the headquarters of General Fara, near Treviso, 
where we had a visit from an enemy aeroplane one eve- 
ning. We attended a review of 15,000 bersaglieri 
many of whom were decorated by General Paoline. 
The same day we visited the Second Battalion of the 



IN THE WORLD WAR 97 

Three Hundred Thirty-second regiment of Americans, 
which was just ready to go into the trenches. Major 
Everson of this battalion is a Baptist minister from 
Cincinnati and a graduate of Franklin. One evening 
we dined with General Gandolfo, who drove the Aus- 
trians back across the Piave last June after they had 
gained a foothold on the right bank. Later we spent 
four days mth General Di Giorgio, near the foot of 
Mount Grappa. From his headquarters we visited all 
of the region from Montebelluna to Bassano and had 
an opportunity to visit some of our Ambulance Corps. 
We found the Oberlin Unit in an old church out in the 
country near Asolo, where Bro^vning used to live. We 
were in Cornuda a few hours after a shell had burst 
and brought away a piece of it as a souvenir. There is 
not a whole house left standing, as there had not been 
a day for six months when a shell had not landed there. 
We also got a telephone captured from the Austrians 
when they were on the Montello. 

After this we went to Verona where were the ^'Y" 
headquarters for the American forces in Italy and 
from there visited the camp and hospitals. The Three 
Hundred Thirty-second regiment had its camp at Val- 
legio, about fifteen miles from Verona, where we vis- 
ited the men. I had the pleasure of addressing the men 
in the camps and hospitals and Mrs. Shank later gave 
concerts wherever there were any American soldiers. 
All of them spoke most highly of the treatment they 
had received in Italy and said they liked it much better 
than France because it was so much cleaner. 

While here we had the opportunity to visit the front 
again. The first day was spent going up above Schio 
and up Mount Campogrosso near Mount Passubio 
where was some of the most bitter fighting of the war. 



98 BUTLER COLLEGE 

We dined mth General Zamboni, who took us to a 
mountain which his men had captured at the beginning 
of the war. Taking advantage of a rain, five men had 
crept up the mountain side and surprised a sentinel 
whom they killed, while the others ran away believing 
that the Italians were there in force. The Avonderful 
roads which the Italians have built up the side of these 
mountains are some of the finest engineering feats ac- 
complished during the war. The "teleferriche" 
(aerial railwa^^s) were marvelous and were used for 
transporting ammunition, supplies, wood and men 
when occasion necessitated. 

The next day we ascended Mount Altissimo. above 
Ala, and visited the Czech-Slovak camp where there 
were 15,000 Bohemian soldiers under command of Gen- 
eral De Vita. On our return we stopped in Ala to see 
a house which had been hit by an Austrian shell that 
morning and we picked up some of the balls which lay 
on the floor where the bomb had landed. These were 
shells from the enemy trenches some six or eight miles 
away. We had been up where we could see across the 
valley to Eovretto, which was back of the enemies' 
lines. One part of the road over which we went up 
the mountain had been absolutely destroyed a couple of 
weeks before by a shell which apparently had come 
do^vn the side of the mountain. The only remnant of 
the sentinel at that place was a part of his little finger. 

I think the thing that struck me most was the lack 
of the appearance of war back of the lines. The peas- 
ants were working as if there had never been a war 
in the country and seemed as unconcerned about the 
enemy as if he were a thousand miles away. One 
woman said she had never left her house, even when 
the Austrians were arriving at the Piave and it was not 



IN THE WORLD WAR 99 

knowii whether they would be stopped there or not. 
For months the shells had fallen on all sides of her 
place, but she went calmly about her work and had 
never been hurt. 

The nonchalance of the Arditi was marvelous. One 
evening we met three camions full of these men, who 
were singing and laughing as if they were going to a 
ball, but the general said they were going to make a 
night attack and the chances were that half of them 
would never return. 

Captain AVilliam Mathews, '14: Hospital in 
France, October 30, 1918. Since the 1st of June 
it has been one continual round of hard fighting. 
You probably know how our division stopped the 
Boches in the first weeks of June in the vicinity of 
Chateau-Thierry. It was our battalion that went into 
Belleau Wood 958 strong and came out about 300 and 
with just six officers. I was one of them. Those were 
surely strenuous days. I'll never forget them as long 
as I live. Somebody was getting it all the time. We 
had no trenches — just small fox holes you dug with 
your best friend, the shovel. During that time I saw 
several men go stark mad from the shellf ire and strain. 

We were pulled out of there at night and loaded 
into camions. We traveled all night and till noon the 
next day. We were unloaded up north of Crepj^ Then 
we hiked the rest of that day and the rest of that night. 
The hike that night was the worst I ever took. Our 
battalion moved single file down a road jammed with 
three lines of traffic. We were twenty minutes late 
getting up to our jumping off place the morning of the 
18th, but we "went over" just the same. We had a 
wonderful barrage. The Boche did not put up much 



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resistance and surrendered readily. With my men we 
took seventy-five prisoners and eight machine guns 
inside of the first hour. 

Then we walked for three miles till we reached our 
objective. The tanks were with us and helped might- 
ily. That night we went over again and went for about 
a mile. The next morning other units jumped us, but 
we remained in support till the morning of the 20th. 
When our division was relieved and got back I was 
completely all in. We had had no sleep or food for 
seventy-two hours and the strain of the past seven 
weeks got me. I lost my nerve after all the danger and 
the fighting was over. 

Well, I went to a field hospital and they sent me in 
by the wonderful hospital train, I finally ended up at 
Nantes. And who should I meet at the station but 
Tuck Brown, of Indianapolis. It did seem good to see 
him. 

I felt so ashamed of myself at that hospital that I 
left in a week and came back to the unit. A little later 
we went into the St. Mihiel show. It was a snap. The 
Boche was all packed ready to surrender. After that 
show we went up in the Champagne country and helped 
the French out. We attacked the morning of October 
3 and the first day was easy. We had our artillery. 
But the second day we were beyond range of our artil- 
lery and it grew pretty warm. 

While our battalion was executing a local attack the 
second day I stopped a shrapnel ball. It went in my 
leg just below the knee and went to the bone, I was 
never more surprised in my life, than when I was hit. 
I had been through so much mthout being hit that I 
thought the Boche did not have my number. It surely 
knocked my feet from under me, and I did let out a 



IN THE WORLD WAR 101 

good strong curse. My, but it made me sore. And 
then I became scared for the first time in a long while. 
I wanted to get out without being hit again. I crawled 
back half a mile and found some stretchers and so I did 
get in. 

I have a real nice wound. It has not pained me in 
the least. They had to operate on me twice to get the 
bullet out. I have it now as a souvenir — one of the 
very few souvenirs I have. 

This hospital I am in is a splendid place. We have 
good beds, the very best of food and service, and the 
staff is efficient. It is simply ideal. And the subway 
is but a block away. It whisks you down to the Place 
de 1 'Opera in a very few minutes. 

I am enjoying myself every minute. I am studying 
French and French history on the side, and making 
good use of my time. It will be a couple of months 
before I get back to the outfit. 

I am sick of war. And so are all the boys. We are 
so sick of it that we do not want a peace unless Ger- 
many surrenders completely. We want no more wars. 
We want to finish it right while we are at it. We fight 
hard because we want to finish Germany and get back 
home as soon as possible. Europe will boil and give 
off a bit of steam for several years to come. 

Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown, '19, October 23, 1918. 
(last letter) : They were more than five to one 
against us, but we were in their rear, and we opened a 
rifle and pistol barrage on them; and when they did 
not take advantage of their numbers, we rushed them 
with bloodthirsty yells, which in my own case were 
much fiercer than I really felt. 

I leveled my empty pistol sternly at them, and they 



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raised their arms in token of surrender. Frightened 
as I may have been, I actually had to laugh, because it 
was so unreal and impossible. It was all actually as it 
used to be when we played war in the yard back home 
years ago — exactly the same, even down to empty pis- 
tol. One of the prisoners could speak a little English, 
so I terrorized him into telling the others in hot haste 
what I wanted them to do. He handed over his belt 
and pistol, which I hope to bring home with me as 
souvenirs. 

In picking around the front line just after we had 
gained ground, I spied a German crouching in the un- 
derbrush. I seized my pistol, but when I looked at the 
man a second time, I saw he was shaking mth fright. 
I went to him and asked him why he was in hiding — a 
foolish question, but what should one say? He did not 
understand English, so I tried French. This time he 
got my meaning and told me he had been wounded by 
shellfire and had been lying out in the open two days 
and nights. 

He was ''fed up" on stories of what Americans did 
to Germans and so had hidden in the brush and had 
not been picked up by the first aid men. I looked him 
over and found he was badly injured. He was almost 
gone from loss of blood, thirst, and exposure. He 
nearly passed away when, instead of braining him, I 
handed him my canteen. Then I called stretcher bear- 
ers and food. As a token of gratitude he gave me the 
blood-soaked five-mark piece which I inclose. I did 
not think much of all this at the time, but afterward I 
felt happy to know that this poor wretch had found 
that the American soldiers were neither cruel nor 
bloodthirsty. 



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Lieutenant Paul V. Brown, '23 : November 8, 1918. 
Hilton died the way all soldiers would like to die, 
quickly, while doing his duty on the far-advanced bat- 
tlefields of a great drive. * * * 

He was buried shortly after he fell, in the little 
town of Nouart, not far from where he died. I am 
writing while we are stalled on the road, waiting for 
the bridge over the Meuse to be built, and this note will 
be forwarded by special messenger through the cour- 
tesy of the Y. M. C. A. and the chaplain. 

Always we sought each other in our spare mo- 
ments. It may be hard to understand how two broth- 
ers could be such good chums. We could laugh and 
joke under the worst circumstances, when we were 
brought together, for it was impossible not to feel 
cheerful when Hilton was about. When one of us re- 
turned from some particularly dangerous mission the 
other was waiting ; and how glad we were to see each 
other and compare notes of what we saw and felt when 
going over with the infantry. 

It seems only the irony of fate that Hilton should 
have gone through all the dangers of these campaigns 
and then be killed w^hen standing by his guns figuring 
firing data for the advance position to which the guns 
were constantly moving. I had just returned from the 
infantry. Hilton and I had lain down and slept 
together for a few hours just before the order came 
again to advance. I was bringing the battery into po- 
sition when an officer, mistaking me for my brother, 
told me that he thought I had just been hit. Then I 
knew that the one dearest to so many hearts was gone. 

I have seen and felt many things in these last ter- 
rible days ; but I hope that I am soldier enough to bear 
up and continue to do my duty as I know you would 
want me to do. 



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Verses by Hilton U. Brown, Jr. 

(Copy of verses found in the effects of Lieut. Hilton U. Brown.) 

Soldier dying, soldier dead, sleep undisturbed, 

No more for you the sword of red, or wrath uncurbed. 

Your soul gone to those heights above, 

To that far land of light and love 

Is unperturbed. 

No need for you to fear hell's fire, whom duty becked. 
To fight in field and rain and mire, in cities wrecked. 
You joined the forces of the right 
To stop a demon wielding might, 
And hold him checked. 

It is that those who, holding power yet craving more. 
Did cause on earth this leaden fire of death to pour, 
Shall learn to fear far fiercer hells 
Than screaming shot and bursting shells 
Ere this life 's o 'er. 

For they shall hear in all their dreams by day or night. 
The widows' moans, the dying screams caused by this fight, 
And let them flee by sea or land, 
A desperate fear with burning hand, 
Will hold them tight. 

In years to come we shall not bow to brutal force. 

Your children who are helpless now will find a source 

Of power in God's own way. 

When peace and love shall both hold sway 

And run their course. 

Hanford Newell. Rogers, '97: Yesterday, Novem- 
ber 11th, was a memorable day in France, particularly 
in Paris, where it was my privilege to be en route to 
my new assignment. It was a delirious joy that the 
people of the French capital expressed over the signing 



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of the armistice. The celebration, which lasted 
through the entire night, went unabated in its magni- 
tude. 

Allied flags, including Old Glory, were hung from 
every nook and corner, and immense throngs of civ- 
ilians along with French, English, and American sol- 
diers, formed an endless procession. The indelible 
impression of that day in Paris will never be forgotten. 
Paris was hysterical. 

I have seen football demonstrations in America, 
when large colleges have been victorious over their 
foremost rivals, but such a celebration was child's play 
in comparison. *'Vive la France," ''La guerre est 
f inie, ' ' one hears everywhere. 

Lieutenant John Iden Kautz, '17: November 17, 
1918. I wrote you fragmentary tales of the refugees 
we rescued and carried back in June, and called Fritzie 
names because he machine-gunned us and bombed us 
while he did it, I gave you glimpses of what the old 
folks and women suffered and how they died in mid- 
summer. But after all that was partly unavoidable 
warfare and I hated them more for being the cause of 
it than for what they did. 

And I have seen what they have done to trees and 
how they befouled the houses they left, have seen their 
loot — packs with costly tapestries and altar robes and 
sacraments piled high in open air — have seen the 
destruction they did with their artillery and forced us 
to do with our own, have seen men killed and wounded, 
and the dead piled high like cord-wood on the field of 
the Somme; tasted the bitter cost of their slow mines 
and traffic traps — all that, but war made some excuse. 

But I say to you in all seriousness, that I hope God 



106 BUTLER COLLEGE 

will eternally damn them for what they have done to 
their prisoners, and what they have extorted from the 
bodies and souls of those they held in invaded lands. 

Oh, they didn 't loot and rape and kill as much as we 
thought, perhaps. There are a thousand notorious 
incidents, sure enough, but it wasn't all like that. 

Several days ago I brought down some hundreds of 
soldier-prisoners. They were clothed in rags and half- 
frozen, for it is very cold here now. Some were so 
starved that they staggered as they walked. Half of 
them were consumptive from work in the mines and 
exposure while fatigued. Many had lost their reason 
— had the vague slack-jawed expression of imbeciles 
and followed one around like sheep. The sound of a 
gunshot made them cringe and whimper like licked 
dogs. We are not too good to our own prisoners, but 
I never have seen any that looked like these poor 
devils. 

Two days ago at a frontier post I stopped my car at 
a gendarme's signal and took aboard a woman and 
child who had been released and set afoot at the bor- 
derline. The child's ears were frozen and bleeding; 
the shoes of both mother and child were mere rags, and 
neither had eaten all day except for a bowl of coffee 
begged from the soldiers at dawn. 

And she was only one of thousands ; all day long they 
straggle down the roads beseeching rides from mili- 
tary cars, already so full with their fellows that springs 
are sagging. They have to eat only such as the soldiers 
are able to give them. They sleep where night finds 
them on the way to their homes, and under such cover- 
ings as they are carrying with them. 

Half of them are going back to find their homes a 
heap of bricks, their fields sown thick with rusted wire 



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and furrowed with shattered trenches. Most of them 
know it, but still they go because it's home, and the 
only one they ever had. Many of them know there will 
be so little left that they Avill not be able to stay, but 
they endure their journeys cheerfully that they may 
see. When the Boche left they took every bit of food 
they could lay their hands on. Till the French armj^ 
got to them they had nothing. Now they fare with the 
soldiers, and we haul them food for sixty miles. 

Another thing. At noon today, as I was coming 
down from Belgium on a crowded road, some undis- 
covered mine let go amidst a crowd of civilians who 
were trudging back. Tonight a town is burning as a 
result, and those surviving mourn the loss of what the 
fighting had left of their family group. I saw on the 
faces of the stretcher bearers the only tears I have 
ever seen a soldier shed. After four years — and then 
that. 

Why, the other day a released Sengalese, passing a 
covert of Boche prisoners, went so mad at the thought 
of what he had suffered at the Germans' hands that 
he killed one of the prisoners with a clasp knife. Had 
I been near enough I would not have wanted to stop 
him, I think. He may have been wrong, but there was 
a certain justice to him none the less. 

I think that neither you nor I will live to see the war 
over. The fighting has stopped. We will be home 
sometime within another year. But the hate that 
burns, and the cold blood of the dead that begs revenge, 
the memories of the wrongs, and the sight of all the 
ruins will outlive this century. God pity the good 
Germans — nobody else will. 

I believe that nothing I saw during the fighting made 
me a good hater, but I am now. 



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Mary L. Winks, A. B. '15: November 21, 1918. 
From the port to Tours we came through a very 
beautiful and charming country, — in fact, it has 
been called the ''garden spot of France." The 
fields were gardens each about an acre in size, the 
fences were hedges, and produce still green. Women 
were doing the work. All were in black with 
little stiffly-starched white caps on their heads, and 
large wooden shoes on their feet. The children along 
the way waved at us. The smooth white roads bor- 
dered with tall poplars, the new foliage, the bright 
green grass, the quiet streams, the vineyards on the 
hillsides, the quaint old towns, the picturesque stone 
farmhouses, and the queer homes of the cliff dwellers, 
made a picture I shall never forget. 

On arriving in Tours we were taken to a hotel man- 
aged by the Y. W. C. A. for American girls. It is 
better than I had been led to expect and it was so much 
better than the boys have that we cannot complain. 
We have an interesting time with the French maids, 
trying to understand and to be understood. I wish I 
had taken French in college instead of German. 

Our office building is a stable and is cold, but we 
enjoy it notwithstanding. My work is as it was in 
Washington, the filing of index cards for all sections 
of the Engineering division of the Ordnance Depart- 
ment. It is impossible to tell more of my work, except 
to add that it is very interesting. 

The other day while hurrying to the office I met 
Edward Ploenges, the first familiar face I have seen. 

There are several interesting places around here, 
and we usually spend Sunday afternoon in sight-see- 
ing. We have been to the Chateau de Luynes. an old 
chateau where the king was staying when Joan of Arc 



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came to ask his permission to lead the French army. 
We climbed up the tower and out on the battlements, 
from which a wonderful view of the surrounding coun- 
try was obtained. Here was the old feudal estate with 
the houses closely grouped around the foot of the hill 
on which the castle stood, on the distant hillsides acres 
and acres of grape vines, nearby the cemetery with its 
old and new crosses and the ancient church, and in the 
distance the beautiful Loire river. If only those old 
walls and towers could talk, what interesting tales they 
might tell. 

Last Sunday we went out to an old tenth-century 
castle now in ruins, but we climbed up in one of the 
towers and amid centuries old dust. From the highest 
window in this ancient castle flew a bright new Tri- 
color and the Stars and Stripes. 

About two squares from the hotel is the cathedral. 
It was begun in the twelfth century and completed in 
the sixteenth. The wonderful stained glass windows 
have been intact since they were placed. When you 
see all the intricate carvings and beautiful furnish- 
ings you cannot but think of how many men through 
centuries of time have spent their labor and their 
talent on this building. Then you think of the other 
cathedrals that represent the soul of France, that the 
Germans have so wantonly destroyed. Every fifteen 
minutes the big bells peal out. 

Last week was one grand celebration. France is 
decked in gala attire, bright new flags fly from every 
house, store, and public building, while "Vive la 
France," "Vive I'Amerique," were on every one's lips 
I never saw such exuberance of joy. A wonderful 
smile lit the faces of the hitherto sad French people, 
a smile one can never forget. The first night the Hotel 



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de Vjille, whicli had been dark since the beginning of 
the war, was a blaze of light. France has lost her men, 
but her unconquered and unconquerable spirit still 
remains. 

Lieutenant Cael C. Amelung, '18: November 29, 
1918. Last Spring all members of the A. E. F. wrote 
their mothers on Mothers' Day. Today those same men 
who survived the great war and suffered the hardships 
of all those dark and bitter daj^s, are writing to their 
fathers as "Dad's Christmas letter." Such is this. 
The work you sent us over here to do has been done and 
we leave it to you if we have not done a mighty good 
job of it. What say you? The Third Army, of which 
the grand old Thirty-eighth Infantry is a member, is 
headed toward Germany on a triumphal march and as 
the Army of Occupation. So you see we shall get to 
speak a little ''Dutch" and trample on German soil 
before our return trip. We do not know when we shall 
get to come home, but we are not worrying as that will 
come in due course. 

Before going on much further I must not forget to 
tell you what a wonderful help the people at home have 
given us during this great struggle. From a personal 
standpoint, I greatly appreciate the cooperation, cheer- 
fulness, and ready assistance you and every member of 
the family have given me. Kindly accept my heartiest 
thanks and convey to the folks my deepest apprecia- 
tion. 

On Christmas day as you sit do^vii to that wonderful 
dinner of turkey, cranberr}'^ sauce, and all the trim- 
mings that I am sure grandma mil have for you, just 
add to your words of grace thanks to the good Lord for 
His guidance, care, and protection which have enabled 
me to come safely through a bitter struggle. 




CHARLES GARRISON 

WINDERS 

Lieutenant, Field Artillery 

Replacement Draft 




FREDERICK RAx\DOLPH 

WITHERSPOOM 

Lieutenant, 150th Field 

Artillery 





FRANK MARION SANDERS 

Corporal. 139th Field 

Artillery 



FREDERICK EMERSON 

WAGONER 

Lieutenant, 57th Coast Artillery 



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We are all glad the war is over, and we know the 
folks back home feel the same way. 

Lieutenant Whitney R. Spiegel, '18: Avre- 
court, France, December 8, 1918. A Merry Christmas 
to all! * * * 

The news of the armistice was certainly wonderful. 
From letters I have received, you people in Indianap- 
olis must have had a wild celebration. Not so with us. 
We ended the war in a very different manner. We 
were in the front line preparing to go ' ' over the top ' ' 
at 1 :30 p. m. Orders had been received at 7 a. m. of 
November 11, to open attack at 1:30. We had made 
all preparations and the artillery was making its bom- 
bardment, when a runner brought the message that 
hostilities would cease at 11 o'clock, 11th of November. 
1918. Nothing could have been more welcome, and yet 
the men gave but a cheer. The news was unbelievable, 
it struck us dumb. 

Our regiment has been in the second battle of the 
Marne, the Saint Mihiel offensive, and the battle of 
Verdun from October 25 to November 11, 1918. This 
last experience at Verdun was the worst we have ever 
had. The old Boche was determined not to yield an 
inch at this point, and he surely carried out his threat. 
This sector was at the pivot of the German retreat, 
and an advance there would have cut off a great 
amount of their supplies. The small towns of Hau- 
mont, Flabas, Samogneux, Ville de Chaumont, and 
Beaumont will always stand out in my memory, when 
I think of this sector. The papers have told you in 
detail of the Saint Mihiel offensive and the Chateau- 
Thierry fight, so I shall not try to add to what you 
already know. 



112 BUTLER COLLEGE 

At your earliest moment write me all about Butler, 
and give to all my friends my best wishes. 

It is rumored that we are to return soon, but we 
know nothing definite. To think of Lidianapolis seems 
like a dream. I can't believe I shall ever be there until 
I have both feet ''planted" in the Union Station. 

Corporal Storey M. Larkin, '19: Neuenahr, Ger- 
many, January 12, 1919. I received the Quarterly, the 
first that I have been able to read, and I have spent my 
odd moments since in absorbing it ; but I 'm not nearly 
through with it. There is nothing, to my mind, which 
so abounds with the true spirit and atmosphere of the 
college as this Quarterly. I read with much interest of 
the installation of the S. A. T. C. unit and I believe that 
the college never fostered a worthier enterprise, even 
though it proved later to be unnecessary. The college 
has no doubt been benefited from the few months that 
the unit was a part of it, and I imagine that many of its 
members owe to the unit desire for a college education 
which they othenvise would not have had. This war 
has impressed me as never before with the value of a 
college education. If we are relieved of this occupa- 
tion duty in time to return home as civilians before 
next fall, you will find me again enrolled as a student. 

We have been living in the midst of the Germans now 
for some time and I confess I am puzzled by them. 
While in the line fighting the Boche, I never thought 
of the German army as composed of human beings, but 
as a monstrous inhuman thing which menaced the 
safety of the world. Consequently, when we came into 
Germany as an army of occupation, we hardly knew 
what to expect from the Germans as individuals. We 
expected to meet with all the petty annoyances which 



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they could inflict upon us, if not more serious trouble ; 
but, to our surprise, the people not only failed to trou- 
ble us, but even did their utmost to aid us in whatever 
manner they could. At first I was suspicious of their 
attitude, I felt that they were playing a part and over- 
doing it at that. But as time has passed their attitude 
has continued unchanged, and it seems impossible that 
if it were a mere mask their real feeling would not 
show itself occasionally. The people say that Rhine- 
land was a prosperous country before the war and 
peacefully inclined, that the war was brought on by 
Prussia against their wishes, that the situation left 
them nothing to do but to take up arms. All are glad 
that Germany is rid of the Kaiser, and the hope is 
often expressed that they may be able to establish 
Rhineland as a republic absolutely independent of 
Prussia and the rest of Germany. All of which may be 
a well-organized propaganda movement, and then 
again it may not be. I myself have not been able to 
decide whether it is or not. If their statements are 
true, it raises in my mind the question whether we can, 
in justice, hold all the German nation, or only a part 
of it, morally responsible for the war and the bestial 
manner in which it was waged. There is no question 
as to all Germany, whether responsible in the begin- 
ning or not, must pay for the havoc that has been 
wrought insomuch as that is possible. 

Major Carlos Watkins Bonham, '15 : Camp Travis, 
Texas, January 23, 1919. While in France I was a 
member of the Fifteenth Field Artillery of the famous 
Second division which also contained the Marines you 
read so much about. It was composed of the Twelfth, 
Fifteenth and Seventeenth Field Artillery, the Ninth 



114 BUTLER COLLEGE 

and Twenty-third Infantry, and the Fifth and Sixth 
Marines, under command of Major-G-eneral Omar 
Bundy. We sailed from New York on December 12, 
1917, on the S. S. Adriatic, arriving in Liverpool 
Christmas Day. From there we went to Southampton 
and thence across the Channel to Le Havre. There we 
entrained for Valdahon in the Department of Doubs, 
close to the Swiss border, where we underwent train- 
ing for the front. On March 21, we were ordered to the 
front, just north of St. Mihiel and south of Verdun. 
Here we stayed until about May 1 when we withdrew 
into rest near Bar-le-Duc. Then we moved south of 
Montdidier, ostensibly to relieve the First division. 
On the morning of May 30, we were preparing to make 
a two day march to relieve this division when we sud- 
denly received orders to entrain, our destination un- 
known. We skirted Paris and then moved directly 
east to Meaux. As we detrained we knew what had 
happened for we saw trainloads of refugees pass us. 
The Germans had started an offensive from the 
Chemin des Dames, which lies between Eeims and 
Soissons, and they had reached Chateau-Thierry and 
the Mame in two days. Things looked desperate ; but 
we were ready for anything. Our infantry had pre- 
ceded us in motor trucks and were already fighting 
when we arrived, having been unloaded right out of 
those trucks into battle. What few Frenchman were 
there seemed demoralized, but we set about systematic- 
ally to stop the Hun. We went into position a few 
miles north-west of Chateau-Thierry and fired con- 
tinuously for forty hours. The point of our station 
was the closest the German reached to Paris and there 
we stopped him in his mad rush on June 1. We fought 
hard uninterruptedly until the last of June when things 



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commenced to slow up. On July 2 we started a little 
fun on our outi account and captured the town of Vaux 
with the Ninth and Twenty-third Infantry. Previous 
to this the Marines had taken Bois de Belleau, Bour- 
esches and Torcy, with our support. Here I received 
the following citation: ''Capt. C. W. Bonham, 15 F. 
A., on July 2, 1918, at Vaux, France. This officer was 
in an observation post in full view of enemy lines di- 
recting the fire of his battery on the town of Vaux, 
when he came under fire of a hostile battery. He re- 
mained at his post until overcome with toxic gas, thus 
contributing in no small measure to the carrying out of 
the brilliant capture of Vaux on the same date, " 

We were relieved about July 10 by the Twenty-sixth 
division and went about five kilometers back to take 
up a support position and rest. The most of us had 
not had baths for about forty days, but now we had 
time to play in the Mame. 

We were expecting another German offensive and 
that is why we had to stay in position with orders to 
hold until the last man. On the night of July 14, we 
pulled out for an unknown destination, going north. 
We marched all night, and the next noon received or- 
ders to turn back — we knew not why. We know now 
it was because the Huns had started again on July 15, 
east of Chateau-Thierry. Soon, however, we received 
other orders directing us to turn again and pursue our 
original course. We marched all that night and the 
next day, and the next night found us in the great fires 
of Villers Cotterets. Still we did not understand why 
we were there until we saw suddenly some tanks. Then 
our hearts beat fast for we knew we were about to 
pull off an offensive, tanks not being used in the de- 
fensive. There we saw traffic such as has never any- 



116 BUTLER COLLEGE 

where been exceeded. The roads were literally choked 
with transports, infantry, cavalry, artillery, tanks, am- 
bulances, motor truck trains, wagon trains and what 
not, six columns in one road all moving in the same 
direction day and night. We were under the screen 
and protection of this immense forest and the front 
lines were near the edge of it. The idea was to start a 
counter-offensive on this salient and surprise them. 
We were put in just south of Soissons alongside the 
First division, ''the place of honor," as General Persh- 
ing says in his report. We were going to press in near 
the upper part of the salient and try to capture the 
Crown Prince's whole army, or, if failing in that, at 
least to make him withdraw. At 4 :35 a. m. of July 18, 
our guns opened up the preparation fire. At 4 :45, our 
infantry, one regiment of which, the Twenty-third, had 
just reached the trenches about two minutes before, 
went over the top. A worthy description of what 
ensued would take a better man than I to do it justice. 
.... Immediately prisoners commenced to pour in 
and about 7 o'clock my battery was ordered to move 
forward, because the Infantry was ''going some." 
That day we advanced about seven or eight kilometers. 
The next day we went only about five. Our infantry 
was so cut to pieces by use as shock troops that they 
had to be relieved — that is, those who were left. So, 
accordingly, that night our division pulled out in favor 
of an Algerian division. Our artillery had not suf- 
fered so heavily as our infantry, and the commanding 
general of our brigade offered our services to the 
Algerians, who accepted them. On July 21 I had the 
most interesting experience of my life. It would take 
more time than I have to describe it; so suffice it to 
give the following citation which accompanied a 



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reconiinendation for the Distinguished Service Cross: 
"Capt. C. W. Bonham, 15 F. A., on July 20, 1918, at 
Vierzy, France. He conducted his battery through the 
town of Vierzy which was then being heavily shelled 
and gassed, and because a road-marker was killed, 
Capt. Bonham was lost. He immediately set out to 
orient himself and came under very heavy machine gun 
fire. By his coolness and zeal he soon located his posi- 
tion and rendered very timely support to the infantry, 
thus setting an example of valor to his men and saving 
the day for the troops he was supporting." 

We did not succeed in our purpose to bottle up the 
Crown Prince's army, for the Germans executed a 
masterful retreat. We did, however, force them to 
withdraw to the Vesle and it was this battle that ended 
the war — a continuation of this battle, I mean. 

A few days later my division went into the Toul 
sector. There I soon received orders to return to the 
United States as an instructor. On August 22, 1 sailed 
from Brest, France, arriving at Hoboken on Septem- 
ber 2. Shortly after I vras promoted to Major. 

Sergeant Willmm A, Hacker, A, B. 16: With the 
exception of a few weeks my enlistment in the army 
has been served in Europe. I had but a few weeks 
training in France before I was called into action with 
my battalion which, like other machine gun units, was 
classed, not without some reason, as a *' suicide club." 
I had the honor of entering the lines in the beginning 
of the second battle of the Marne at Chateau-Thierry, 
and took part in the advance to the Vesle river where, 
after several days of front line action, in which my 
organization engaged, I was rather severely wounded 
by shrapnel. After two and one-half months in the 
hospital I rejoined my company near the Argonne 



118 BUTLER COLLEGE 

front. Again I was returned to the hospital, and again 
I joined my unit in Germany vdih the Army of Occupa- 
tion. 

I think, perhaps, that one who has been subject to 
the awfulness of warfare would be the better prepared 
with time to narrate his experiences. It is hardly pos- 
sible for me yet to gain a full realization of all the 
dangers that encompassed me or to visualize it as 
clearly as I shall be able some day to do. 

When I first arrived in France I heard over and 
over again that ''the Sammy has lost his smile." It is 
true that the Yanks had lost their cheerfulness, I think, 
for their thoughts were turned only to the dreadfulness 
of all — the long hard night-marches, the cold damp 
days and nights in the trenches, in the slush and the 
mud, and the chances of life itself seemingly against 
them. The experiences have been bitter with all the 
devices of demon ingenuity to contend with — the gas, 
the machine gun and sniper fire, and all the rest ; but 
now we are in a stage of relaxation and we've found 
the "Sammy smile" again. Here in Germany the 
boys (or men I should the rather say, for this war has 
made men of the most of them) are a cheerful lot, 
happy that fate has been kind enough to preserve them. 
Yet there are dark moments when we think of all the 
good friends whose blood helped to redden the battle- 
fields of France and who gave their lives for the cause 
we all know to be just. 

I joined the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion of the 
Fourth division. Regular army, last March, at Camp 
Greene, North Carolina, where we remained until the 
latter part of April. We arrived in France May 16 
and went into training under the British; afterwards, 
under the French. Several weeks before entering the 



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lines we were placd in the reserve forces and stationed 
between Chateau-Thierry and Paris to aid in checking 
a drive on the latter place, should it become neces- 
sary. With the German drive in the direction of Paris 
in July we were rushed to the lines and helped to turn 
the Hun offensive into a rear-march which led to Allied 
supremacy, and finally to complete victory. 

The story of bombs that seemed each night almost 
to shake the foundations of the earth, of the whistle of 
the big artillery roar, of the star-shells, of the dread 
mustard-gas, has been told as well as words can tell 
it. But it is a bigger story to one of us who went 
through it all than it is possible to convey to others. 
I had held the idea that war was really not so danger- 
ous as depicted, only a great big business, organized on 
a great big scale, each man with his special duty to 
perform and in little more danger than a civilian on 
a crowded New York street. My first morning in a 
front line sector, however, corrected this conception. 
In our baptism of fire, one who was lying on a hillside 
beside me was killed. I moved to the foot of the hill 
beside another comrade who in a few seconds received 
his fatal wound. 

It was in the Vesle river fighting that I witnessed 
and took part in one of the severest encounters in 
which the Americans were engaged. We were subject 
to artillery, machine gun and sniper fire, a great deal 
of gas, and the frequent harassing of planes. Here I 
was fortunate enough to meet a fellow- alumnus of But- 
ler, Avery Morrow. I ran across him under rather 
peculiar circumstances. A large high-explosive shell 
had struck beside a dug-out I was occupying. The 
force of the explosion stunned and gave me a strong 
dose of shell-smoke which at first I thought to be gas. 



120 BUTLER COLLEGE 

I managed to get out and to seek another dug-out near 
where I found Avery. Soon I felt all right and we had 
as enjoyable a chat as circumstances Avould allow. 

I do not know that it would hold true generally, but 
from my experience college men were the highest 
standard of courage in action. Three college grad- 
uates entered the army and were assigned to the com- 
pany the same time as I. One was transferred after 
our arrival in France. The three of us were left in the 
company and entered action together. One practically 
assumed command of the company during the most 
severe phase of our action and later received a severe 
and perhaps fatal wound. The other was the very 
essence of courage, and no one could have displayed 
greater fortitude than he under terrible circumstances. 
He gave up his life in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. 
Three Distinguished Service Crosses were aAvarded in 
my company, two of them to these two college men. 

We prefer to muse on the prospects of getting back 
to sunshine and peace once more — back to the country 
whose honor we think we have upheld. We feel it a 
privilege to have been selected for the Army of Occu- 
pation and will continue, uncomplaining, in our coun- 
try's service until the time all danger is deemed past. 
I think we can fairly say a glomng chapter has been 
added to the history of American honor and I am 
thankful to have contributed, even though slightlyj to 
the defense and expression of her high ideals. 

Seaman Delbeet Ross McCord, '19: U. S. S. Newark. 
Realizing there would be an opportunity to serve my 
country during this great struggle, I enlisted in the 
United States Navy in June, 1917. Upon completion of 
my apprenticeship at Newport, I was given the oppor- 



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tunity of qualifying; for a petty officer ; but I had vol- 
unteered for foreign service, my desire being to scout 
for German submarines in the war zone. 

Early in February, 1918, the call came for men for 
duty on destroyers in the waters of France, England, 
and elsewhere. I was eager to accept the chance for 
real service. The voyage over on the great transport 
^'America," carrying several thousand soldiers, was 
exciting. On the eve of entering the submarine zone, 
a periscope was sighted several thousand yards ahead 
of the ship. The alarm was given and instantly every 
man was at his battle station. The signal was given 
for firing one of the six-inch guns. In the midst of 
perfect silence the great gun belched forth her noise 
and fire. The so-called periscope flew into the air in 
splintered form. Later it was decided by the officers 
that the supposed submarine was nothing more than a 
floating spar from some torpedoed ship. 

The following day every man's countenance bright- 
ened as there appeared upon the horizon fourteen 
American destroyers to convoy us in to Brest. These 
ever-vigilant boats coming whirling over the waves 
with spray fl^dng in every direction made a most de- 
lightful picture, and what confidence they did bring 
us! 

Upon arriving in Brest harbor we new sailors were 
sent to the receiving ship, or barracks. These barracks 
were located in an old chateau and were very pleasant. 
In two weeks I was detailed to a destroyer, and here 
my service really began. That you may understand 
the routine aboard a destroyer as I, a seaman, had it. 
I shall explain. It was deck work : scrubbing the deck, 
painting the ship, splicing tackle, anchoring the ship, 
steering when under way, standing look-out watches 
and gun-crew watches, having boat and gun drills. 



122 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Early in the morning the ship is made ready to sail. 
About 6 a. m. the siren blows and the boat with four or 
five other destroyers slowly steams out of the harbor 
on her way to the United States. I was usually on the 
flagship of the flotilla which went ahead taking a posi- 
tion in front of the convoy. Oftentimes there were as 
many as five transports in the convoy. When out of 
sight of land the destroyers would in zig-zag course 
surround the troop ships, keeping all the while sharp 
look-out for submarines and strange vessels. After 
about forty-eight hours the convoy was left to make its 
own way across the ocean. All the seamen had to do 
was to stand watch at the guns and in the look-out. It 
was a monotonous job. 

After leaving the out-going convoy, the destroyers 
would steam along to a certain position where they 
would patrol and watch for an in-coming convoy. Each 
trip had a new rendezous so as to foil the Germans. 
As the transports appeared on the horizon, we would 
go swirling and rolling over the foaming billows at full 
speed to greet them. Then the same grim routine of 
long weary watching followed until we headed for 
port. 

I made fifty trips on the destroyer '' Isabel." The 
most of them were convoy journeys ; a few were scout- 
ing and submarine hunting trips. Two were mail trips 
to England. In all I cruised about 60,000 miles in the 
war zone in the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, 
and the Atlantic Ocean. 

One fine day in June, 1918, five American destroy- 
ers, two British destroyers and three French destroy- 
ers, were ordered out to hunt for a German submarine 
supply-ship which was supposed to be supplying sub- 
marines operating in the Bay of Biscay and off the 



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Azores. We steamed to sea in search. The weather was 
warm and beautiful. The French Admiral in conomand 
ordered us southward in battle formation. It was grow- 
ing dusk on the first evening out and nothing had been 
seen. All at once we were suddenly stopped. A steam 
line in the fire room leading to the turbines had burst. 
We drifted for six or eight hours with all fires out 
until repairs were finished. Luckily no one was 
injured. 

On the third day a periscope was sighted and we 
rushed forward at full speed. Of course it disap- 
peared, but we could see its wake. In a short time 
twenty-two powerful depth-bombs had been cut loose. 
All we could see was a coating of oil on the water's sur- 
face. It is supposed the U-boat met its fate. On other 
trips we crippled two submarines which were interned 
in Spain. It was no unusual scene the early part of 
1918 to see torpedoed ships. Floating debris met us 
continually. I never saw a ship torpedoed, but I have 
helped to pick up survivors near the entrance to Bor- 
deaux harbor. 

In August, 1918, we were in dry dock in Brest. I was 
given opportunity to visit Paris. I certainly availed 
myself of that opportunity. While there occurred the 
last air raid on that interesting spot. It did not last 
long and, thanks to the wonderful French planes, the 
Boche soon disappeared never to approach that beauti- 
ful city again. 

Lieutenant George Ben Loy, '22 : Though I did not 
reach the front and can not write of sectors held and 
of towns captured, nevertheless I did have the pleas- 
ure of being associated with many real soldiers and of 
passing through experiences of unusual interest. I 



124 BUTLER COLLEGE 

was in the service twenty-seven months and would lite 
to tell you some things. 

After helping recruit Battery E of the Indiana Na- 
tional Guard, I went to the First Training Camp at 
Fort Benjamin Harrison. The days there were full 
of hard work in our effort to become fit to be officers. 
Many Butler boys were there. The close of the train- 
ing camp found us second lieutenants. "Tuck" Brown 
and ''Tow" Bonham were chosen for immediate serv- 
ice overseas. I was assigned to Camp Taylor and for 
an even year stayed in Kentucky \vith the Three Hun- 
dred Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, going to schools and 
training troops. At last our regiment was proficient 
and the great day of our departure became a reality. 

We had a special train from West Point, Kentucky, 
to Hoboken, and it was during this memorable ride that 
occurred the first of those things which impressed me 
so deeply. It was nothing more nor less than the won- 
derful way the people, especially the little children, 
greeted the troops as they passed. It was natural that 
the elders should cheer their sons going to war, but 
that the little children should show such devotion was 
touching, indeed. It made us feel that we really had a 
country worth going to war for. 

On September 9, 1918, we sailed for France. Our 
convoy was large and the sight of those eighteen huge 
transports steaming in formation across the ocean was 
a sight never-to-be-forgotten. After landing at Glas- 
gow, we went to Southampton and then across the 
Channel to Le Havre. From Bordeaux I went to 
Tours. The end of the war found me there in the avia- 
tion school. 

In the Spring of 1919, after several months service 
in the "Mill" at Bordeaux, I secured a fifteen-day- 



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leave. Paris was seen as I passed through en route to 
the battlefields, and if possible to find the spot where 
"Tuck" was buried. Chalons, Toul, St. Mihiel, Ver- 
dun, and then Stenay, the last three towns still a pitiful 
sight. Indeed, the entire region was a sad sight. 
Towais battered into dump-yards of stone and fields 
perforated with shell-holes. The worst of all was the 
deep silence which prevailed, for the country was with- 
out inhabitants. Shells and shell-cases, fuses and 
hand-grenades in quantities so numerous that I believe 
I saw millions of them, and all the paraphernalia that 
an army leaves in its wake. The zone was as it had 
been left on November 11, 1918, except that the dead 
had been buried, and the rows upon rows of crosses — 
I shudder as I recall them. No one could view this 
land of desolation and of death without full sympathy 
for France and enduring hatred for war. 

I left the rail-road at Stenay and proceeded inward 
towards Nouart where I had been informed that 
"Tuck" lay buried. For hours I searched the rows 
and rows of crosses looking for his resting place. It 
was late afternoon and soon darkness would approach, 
but how could I give up seeing the dear spot ! Finally, 
a Belgian came along on horseback and directed me to 
the village I sought. It was a few kilometers away, 
but my eager strides soon brought me there. Nouart 
was a little village, shell-torn and war-ravaged, located 
in a valley of unusual beauty. Here, within a low 
stone wall, damaged and battered, were the graves of 
bygone villagers and of dead Germans, for the area 
had been held by the Germans for almost four years. 
The most of the mounds had been toni up by shells. I 
looked all of them over, but could not find the grave 
I sought. As a last resort I looked outside the wall 



126 BUTLER COLLEGE 

and there I saw two fresh mounds — Tuck's and that 
of the son of General Cameron. It was indeed a bat- 
tlefield grave and a fitting resting-place for one who 
had died so nobly. Never can I forget this simple vil- 
lage burying-ground surrounded by the everlasting 
hills of the Argonne with its shell-torn vaults and its 
two freshly-made graves. Oh, it was not easy to leave ! 
But I returned to Stenay, going on up to Nancy 
where "Tow" Bonham was a student. Metz was my 
next stopping-place — a wonderful city. Then came the 
long ride to that wonderland of Europe and the world's 
play-ground — the Riviera. The mellow beauty and 
marvel of the region baffle description. It is the joy- 
land, the dream-land of our world. The beautiful 
Mediterranean, the beach, the palms, the villages with 
tiled houses of stucco ; further back the hills "stepped" 
for orange groves ; and further back the majestic Alps. 
I long for the day which will take me back to Nice. 
However, with sadness I continued my journey across 
southern France to Biarritz and on to Bordeaux. 
Waiting for orders home and then for a boat, were try- 
ing ; but at last the longed-for day came and at the Bas- 
sens dock occurred the last impressive incident of our 
great adventure. Only those who have spent many 
months in a foreign land can realize the deep feelings 
we all had as we cast off homeward, hearing the strains 
of the Stae Spangled Banneb and of the Maeseil- 
LAiSE ; home to these United States and to those whose 
love and faith had supported us in the endurance of 
war that they and the country might go on — a nation of 
high morals and righteousness. 

Lieutenant Justus W. Paul, A. B. '15: Prance. 
January 27, 1919. I was delighted to learn that a War 



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Record, in which will be set down all the fine things 
that Butler men have done, is being prepared. I am 
sure that no other college can show a more remarkable 
record. I am very proud to be among the Butler 
''bunch." I know nearly all the boys personally and 
I have not met better soldiers nor finer gentlemen. 

It was with the deepest regret that I learned of the 
death of Hilton Bro^\Ti, Jr., and of Kenneth Elliott, 
They were two of the finest men I ever knew. I have 
heard of them several times indirectly and everyone 
who knew either of them over here speaks very highly 
of them. I am sitting at the table now with Lieutenant 
Coudert, who was at the Saumur artillery school with 
''Tuck." He has been telling me what a fine record 
"Tuck" made there and how well he was liked by the 
other officers. 

I personally have not very much of a record. I have 
been jumping about from place to place and from regi- 
ment to regiment ever since I left Ft. Harrison. I was 
not able to do w^hat I hoped to do and wanted to do, but 
that is the army. At present I am in the Tank Corps, 
as you know, and it is to my mind the finest branch of 
the service. The tanks are wonderful creations — no 
one can conceive of the things they will do unless he 
has had experience with them. 

Lieutenant Lionel F. Artis, '19. Headquarters, 
Eight Hundred Ninth Pioneer Infantry (famous col- 
ored regiment) Camp St. Luce, Nantes, France. 
Lincoln's birthday, 1919. Many are the times in this 
far-away country that my thoughts have turned 
to Butler College and very pleasant memories they 
have been. The pleasant and inspiring class sessions 
and the quiet chapel hours will never be forgotten by 
those who shared in them. 



128 BUTLER COLLEGE 

But many things have happened since those days and 
many varied experiences have entered in between. The 
past six months have seemed so man}^ j'^ears to me. In- 
deed, in all my life never has any like period been 
filled with such varied and at the same time worth- 
while experiences. 

From an "all- wise" civilian on the 22nd of August 
last, I was suddenly transformed into a full-grown 
khaki-clad soldier, and not until then did I fully realize 
what the men of the army were going through in the 
name of Liberty and Democracy. Then commenced 
the long, hard days of training. Along with that came 
those ''shots." I am sure some of your boys must 
already have told you about those "shots" (typhoid 
and para-typhoid) which the recruit dreads more than 
the hardened soldier does the Hun shells. 

From August 22nd until the day we left Camp 
Dodge seemed like an age ; but in reality within three 
weeks of the time we first set foot on Camp Dodge soil 
we were aboard the train bound for the port of em- 
barkation. That day will never be forgotten by us — 
Friday the 13th of September. Whatever else anyone 
has to say about Frida^^ the 13th, it has been a lucky 
day for us. September 15th found us at Camp Upton, 
New York and September 23rd, one month from the 
day we entered the army, found us on the transport 
for France. 

Pretty hard, these last days in the United States 
were, as we look back at them. So short had been our 
time for preparation before leaving Camp Dodge that 
our stop at Camp Upton was a forced one. They had 
not expected us and made no plans whatever for re- 
ceiving a regiment of troops. We went up amid the 
stumps and mud of a one-time woods and pitched our 



IN THE WORLD WAR 129 

tents and called it our ''camp." Rain came down in 
torrents daily and for the first day or so many of the 
men had to sleep on the bare ground. Meals came only 
twice daily and then sometimes they could hardly be 
called ''meals." Such days as these have their equal 
only here in France ; but now we know that they were 
only a foretaste of what was to be our lot on many a 
day ahead. Army "paper- work" was terribly behind 
and typewriters clicked all night long. In my office the 
men worked all day and far into the small hours of the 
morning on passenger lists, rosters, AGrO change re- 
ports and the thousand other things that one finds to 
do only in the army. 

But all this Ave did cheerfully. If our "brothers-in- 
arms" could do the things we heard they were doing 
overseas, sure we could sacrifice our personal comfort 
long enough to lend them a hand. We had been formed 
into the regiment from the Depot Brigade on the 12th 
of September, and on the 18th of September I received 
my warrant as a regimental sergeant-major. This is 
the highest non-commissioned rank in the army tables 
and formerly came only after several years of hard 
and faithful service. But many changes have come 
about in this National army and here I am regimental 
sergeant-major ^Yith not a day of previous service to 
my credit. I am told that our outfit is the only one 
that left Camp Dodge A\T.th a regimental sergeant- 
major who had not seen any previous service. 

The trip across was one long to be remembered. 
Something like 25,000 men were in the convoy. We 
were crowded like sardines — the call had come to send 
men and to send them in a hurry and we were the 
answer. The influenza rage hit the convoy and many 
died at sea. The fourth dav out found me down Avith 



130 BUTLER COLLEGE 

the malady and for over a week it was a life and death 
struggle. The ships were so crowded, the epidemic 
was so wholly unexpected that the doctors hardl}^ knew 
what to do. A wearied bunch it was who landed at St. 
Nazaire, France, on the 6th of October. Because of 
the epidemic we had to pull down to St. Nazaire and 
had not landed at Brest, the original destination. The 
regiment was taken to a rest-camp ; while I was sent to 
Base Hospital No. 101, where I lay until October 18th. 
It was during these early days in October that our 
army was straining every nerve in the big offensive 
which began on September 26th. Men at the front 
were yelling for supplies and they must be rushed for- 
ward. Our men were called from the rest-camp and 
all day and all night details worked at loading and 
shipping these needed supplies. For ourselves, we 
got scarcely anything. All — everything — had to go to 
the front and the men in the back lines gladly made the 
sacrifice. This lasted for about two weeks, when we 
received an order sending us into the advance zone. 
Later this was revoked and we were ordered to the 
intermediate zone and on October 24th we moved. 
Part of the regiment went to Savenay and the remain- 
der of the outfit went to Camp St. Luce at Nantes. 
One, two, three, four was the song heard all day, 
and far into the night drill sergeants kept it up 
with the ''awkward" squads. At Camp St, Luce was 
established a base of supplies and our men have built 
this entire camp. In addition to building the ware- 
houses and putting in the tracks, etc., they are now 
guarding its contents. At one place something like 
38,000 barrels of picric acid, one of the highest kinds 
of explosives, were stored and to our troops was as- 
signed the task of guarding that. Some of the men 



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were sent on mail service and some of them were as- 
signed to duty at a Remount station farther north. 
Right now the whole outfit is expecting an order to 
move, where, we do not know, but rumor says we are 
to be attached to the Third army, and sent to Holland 
or Germany. 

Mj^ regiment has seen no action at the front, and if 
that had been the case, I should not have been for- 
tunate enough to have done much actual fighting. A 
sergeant-major does the biggest part of his fighting 
with paper and pen — and many a battle is fought out 
around regimental headquarters, let me tell you. Re- 
ports have to be filled out on the minute, troops have 
to be paid and accounted for and a thousand other 
things have to be done which a ' ' civi ' ' never dreams of. 
Right today my holiday has been spoiled because the 
payroll came in and the men have to be paid. 

But what do I think of all this? What effect has it 
all had upon me? Sleeping on the bare ground at 
times, save for the 0. D. blankets with which we are 
supplied ; missing more meals than you often got ; not 
knomng what a bath would feel like, not to say clean 
clothes; working all day and then half the night for 
days at a stretch — how do I look back on it all? Ther^c, 
I tell you, truly have been the richest days of my life. 
Then it was that I learned what life is really for and 
that behind all this hardship was a deeper purpose 
which was being worked out. In the quiet of an eve- 
ning campfire many things come to one, things hitherto 
dark and mysterious. The beauty of life, its privileges 
and responsibilities dawn upon one more clearly than 
ever before. Not until men have soldiered together; 
not until hardships, sickness, and death have cemented 
them do they know what friendship, what comradeship 



132 BUTLER COLLEGE 

really means. But we men here in France know by 
now. 

We are coming back to you soon and we do want you 
to be proud of us. The men who are returning to you 
will not be the same carefree fellows who went away 
from you. In spirit they will be total strangers to their 
old selves. An awakening has come over us — no man 
can go through this life and not be a bigger and deeper 
man for having had the experience. Ideals are nobler, 
lives purer and bodies cleaner. Homes will be brighter 
and ties of love truer for it all. The loved ones at 
home shall not have waited in vain. Men are finding 
themselves and in finding themselves are finding God 
again. Perhaps they do not say as much in words, but 
in their lives they are determined to follow Him as the 
Captain of their Salvation. Over here it is that God 
becomes very near and real to each one of us. I am 
thinking of H. G. Wells' book, ''God, the Invisible 
King." God shall rule. The ideals for which we 
struggle are His and by His might they shall triumph. 

Have I tired you? When one gets started on his 
experience in the army, he doesn't know when to stop. 
To us these things are prime. Surely you have fol- 
lowed us and understand. One of my highest aspira- 
tions is to do justice to the traditions of Butler, as I 
am the only former Butler student in my regiment. 
How I long for the day when I can again tread her 
halls. 

RoscoE C. Smith, '15 : Paris, Prance. While it was 
not my privilege to be in Europe during the period of 
hostilities, I am at present trying to do my part in 
serving the boys during the difficult period which has 
intervened since the signing of the Armistice. As you 



IN THE WORLD WAR 133 

know, an army at leisure, waiting to go home is in 
very great danger of going to pieces through various 
forms of dissipation; so men are needed to help keep 
up the morale of the boys while they wait embarkation 
and demobilization. 

I arrived in France on December 10, and was as- 
signed to Le Mans area with the Twenty- seventh 
division of New York, a splendid fighting unit, which 
took active part in the storming of the Hindenburg line 
on September 29. General O'Brien of New York, was 
their leader and they certainly gave good account of 
themselves under his direction, as was evidenced by 
the fact that General Pershing in reviewing them 
previous to their departure gave citations to many for 
their bravery and personally presented the Distin- 
guished Service Cross to about three score of them. 

My work since coming here has had to do with both 
the physical and the spiritual well-being of the boys. 
... It has been necessary for the Y. M. C. A. and 
similar organizations to do everything possible to help 
the boys pass the time profitably and honorably. Their 
billets were very poor, since large bodies of them were 
placed in small towns and villages. I have ^\T.tnessed 
many of them sleeping in barns and stalls — quite sig- 
nificant, it has seemed to me, that the world's bast men 
who have given themselves for the cause of world free- 
dom should, like their Master, sleep in a stall. Yet, at 
a season of the year when it rains almost incessantly 
and the mud is knee-deep, one heard little complaining. 
They seemed to think that the fact their lives were 
spared and they wore waiting to return to America was 
their great gain. Oh, I can not feel the world is worthy 
of these brave boys ! 

It was my duty to run a large regional warehouse 



134 BUTLER COLLEGE 

and by means of a number of Fords to supply the boys 
with physical comforts, as cookies, candy, chocolate, 
cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum, tobacco, tooth-paste, 
brushes, towels, soap, and various other articles. We 
covered the territory within a radius of fifteen miles. 
Some days I sent out as much as $20,000 worth of sup- 
plies, and then when night came on, because of a short- 
age of men, I would take one of the Fords and a group 
of entertainers to some point in the area for an eve- 
ning's entertainment. Often we had no lights on the 
cars, it being impossible to get them; so we drove by 
faith and not by sight. On Sundays the chaplains 
would call upon us to go out to speak to the boys or 
sing with them. So, every one who had capacity for 
service of any kind was called upon to use it to the 
utmost to keep up the spirits of the boys. There is 
much to tell, but I am taking too much of your time. 
I can only say that this has been a wonderful expe- 
rience to all of us, an educational privilege worth 
while. 

I often think of the many happy hours at Butler and 
I feel indebted to those members of the faculty with 
whom I worked beyond my ability to pay for their pa- 
tience and painstaking efforts. I only hope and pray 
that some little service which I may render here to our 
gallant army, may, in some way, reflect the spirit of 
unselfish devotion which Butler has tried to instill in 
the hearts of her students. 

Private Paul, H. Moore, '21: Pannes, France, 
March 18, 1919. Yesterday forty of us moved over 
here, arriving about noon. I spent the rest of the day 
arranging my infirmary — a pretty good place with not 
much to repair, only to rebuild three sides, the roof and 





WOOD UNGER 

Captain, 357th Infantry 



ADAM H. FLATTEIl 
Corporal, 155th Infantry 





JOHN WILBERT BARNETT ROSCOE CONKLING SMITH 

Secretary, Young Men's Secretary, Young Men's 

Christian Association Christian Association 



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floor of the room. About four o'clock we were eating 
our three meals in one, when a bunch of German pris- 
oners was brought in town. I went to the old barn 
where they were quartered and found out from the 

French guard that there were 453 of them This 

morning after breakfast I walked out to some dug-outs 
and got a table and chair and window. Upon return 
a French soldier was waiting to tell that several of the 
Germans were sick and wanted me to fix them up. So. 
I took some bandages and stuff and went over. I hope 
I may never again have to look upon such human beings 
in such a condition as these Germans. They were 
sleeping in a barn used during the war for horses, with- 
out being cleaned out. Not only that, but there are 
very few spots where there does not stand at least 
an inch of water. For your sake I am glad I can not 
describe better what I saw. Nearly all the men had 
either been wounded or were suffering from boils. 
Infection was so bad that I had to take them out of 
doors before I could finish dressing the wounds. All 
I had to work with was alcohol, bandages, adhesive 
plaster, iodine, a pocket knife and a pair of pliers. I 
used the knife for lancing boils and the pliers for pull- 
ing teeth. Until this morning I had the impression the 
Germans were cowards, but I have changed my mind. 
Out of all the men I treated only one showed the least 
sign of pain. He was a fellow with a mass of puss 
about the size of a tea cup on his back. After cleaning 
the place I poured the cavity full of alcohol. Then he 
moved for the first time, laughed a little, and in Ger- 
man said, ''Sir, that is hotter than Hell!" I do not 
doubt he was absolutely right. 

This afternoon I put a window in my house and fin- 
ished reading "Rob Roy." A while ago I walked over 



136 BUTLER COLLEGE 

to the next town and got a dozen eggs, they costing 
only eight francs. Here I am now, with my candle 
almost as far gone as my fire, writing home with vis- 
ions of fried eggs for breakfast. 

I have been taking care of my patients as usual, only 
more so. It 's all a great experience, but the other day 
I had an experience I hope I shall never have to meet 
again. I was wrapping up one of the fellow's fingers 
which he had tried to chop off with an axe when we 
heard an explosion and a piece of shell went over our 
heads. We did not think much of it at the time, as 
things of that kind happen every day. In about two or 
three minutes, though, a French soldier came running 
in and jabbering so fast no one could understand him. 
I finally gained enough of his lingo to know that some 
one was hurt and help was needed. I snatched up 
bandages, etc., and ran to the prison camp. There I 
found a French soldier in one awful condition and 
another one shot through the arm and leg. The first 
one had his right hand off at the wrist, the whole right 
side of his face gone including his eye and ear, his right 
leg hanging by a few shreds just above his knee, while 
his body and left leg were full of holes. The first thing 
I did was to stop the bleeding in his arm and face. 
That was easy, but it was next to impossible to stop the 
bleeding in his right leg as there was so little of it 
left to work with. The next thing I was up against was 
to get him to the hospital and a doctor which were 
twenty-five kilometers from here. I had turned that 
part of it to the French when I first started on the 
mess, but instead of getting some kind of transporta- 
tion they got into an argument about where they were 
going to take him. Finall}'', I got hold of Lieutenant 



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Whipple, who is our company commander and hap- 
pened to be here in a Ford truck, and obtained permis- 
sion to use his machine. After getting the Frenchman 
in a blanket we placed him in the back of the Ford and 
started off. The driver knew his business and we did 
not lose much time. After riding the longest twenty- 
five kilometers in the world's history, we got to the 
hospital and turned the man, still smiling and asking 
for a drink of water, over to the doctors. He died the 
next da}^, but, thank God, he was under the doctor's 
care and not mine at the time. 

Night before last I spent about three hours with a 
Frenchman who had been on a big drink and had the 
D. T.'s and let his heart slow up on him. This a. m. at 
2 o'clock I spent an hour with a German who had an 
attack of acute indigestion; at 6 a. m. I set a broken 
leg for another German ; and at 10 a. m. answered sick 
calls for eighty-two other Germans, and redressed the 
other Frenchman's arm and leg. Otherwise, I have 
had a pretty quiet time this week. Am going to Verdun 
tomorrow. 

As to my trip to the Alps. No one has a vocabulary 
to do justice to that trip. It would be a sacrilege for 
me to try to describe such a stupendous thing. 

You ask me to visit Hilton Brown's grave. I have 
done eveiything possible to get a pass, but without 
success. 

This war is not over yet. The Germans are carrying 
out one of the greatest propaganda systems they have 
ever known, and all that there is to it is the fact they 
are promoting sympathy for everything German, As 
I see it, that is one of the most dangerous things the 
world has to contend with. Even the prisoners here 



138 BUTLER COLLEGE 

have brought about hard feeling between the Ameri- 
cans and the French and have both parties feeling 
that Germany is 0. K. I do not doubt in the least 
that the same thing is going on in the States. So, be- 
ware of anything German; it's dangerous. I know 
from experience. 

As to myself, I am in this little village, twenty-five 
kilometers from the nearest doctor, with no telephone, 
and about 500 human beings depending upon me for 
their well-being. Naturally, I do not have much time 
to write. Still, I have plenty of everything except 
U. S. A. 

CoBPOEAL. Frederick WiTHERSPOoisr, '18 : With the 
Rainbow division, Neuenahr, Germany, March 18, 1919. 
I wish I could tell you how much the college letters have 
meant to us, the Alwmnal Quarterlies and Collegians, 
also. They have been passed along and read by all. A 
new budget came yesterday, and the school and teach- 
ers were fully discussed on the banks of the Rhine. 
Sad word came for ''Bobby" Roberts in the news of 
the death of his mother. He has talked so enthusiastic- 
ally of late of the long-delayed home-coming, and such 
a loss as his, coming as it does, seems infinitely sadder 
than anything that might have befallen in action over 
here. In fact, a soldier fears only for those at home. 

There is much of my experience I should like to tell 
you, but I fear I have not the ability to do so. It may 
l3e said of me that I was among the many Butler men 
who jumped at the first opportunity to go, and to 
choose a buck private's berth that I might cross with 
the famous Rainbow division, the second American 
division to reach the fighting front. We arrived at St. 
Nazaire, France, on the night of October 31, 1917, and 



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proceeded to Camp de Coetquidan. Here the Sixty- 
seventh Artillery brigade, of which the One Hundred 
Fiftieth is a unit, remained in intensive training until 
February. In that month we started our move toward 
the front and entered our first position near the twen- 
tieth day, amid an avalanche of snow. This was in 
Lorraine of the Baccarat sector, just south of Lune- 
ville. Here the regiment received its first taste of 
front-line life. We remained four months. The sec- 
tor was reasonably quiet and our casualties, with the 
exception of those of one battery, were unusually light. 
At this time I was a line corporal in the topographical 
section. These Lorraine months were for me the most 
enjoyable I have spent in service. It was here my 
active fighting career came to an abrupt end, and I 
have since considered May 28, 1918, the most unfor- 
tunate day in my army experience, for I was then 
chosen one of sixteen enlisted men from the division to 
go back of the lines as an instructor in topography to 
troops newly arrived for training. So, I proceeded to 
Camp de Valdahon, a French artillery camp near the 
Swiss border. Leaving all old friends behind, I 
served in this capacity until near the end of August. 
While here I was fortunate enough to meet my 
friend. Tommy Hibben, but no one else known before. 
I missed my Butler friends and made repeated unavail- 
ing attempts to return to the front with my old organ- 
ization then taking part in the great offensives at 
Champagne, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and Meuse- 
Argonne, successively. Near the end of August the 
colonel in command at Valdahon, evidently wearying 
of my much asking to take French leave in the direc- 
tion of the One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, sent 
me to the Officers' Training School at Saumur. Here I 



140 BUTLER COLLEGE 

was laboriously pursuing my studies when the Armis- 
tice became a reality. My class continued, however, 
and graduated two weeks later as ' ' third lieutenants. ' ' 
Finally, I was returned to the One Hundred Fiftieth, 
now at Neuenahr, Germany, with my former status of 
line corporal; but I was pleased beyond words to be 
again with the old boys, although I found many of 
them, including '* Danny", Ed. Wagoner, Forrey Wild 
and Ed. Whitaker, had in my absence been wounded 
and were either in base hospitals recovering, or on 
their long journey ''to the home of the brave" — the 
good old U. S. A. 

On February 1, third lieutenants were commissioned 
second lieutenants and at the same time offered com- 
missions in the regular army. It did not take me long 
to decide. I chose to stay here for the present and to 
return home next month with the Rainbow division. 
The few Butler men who remain are well and are 
anxiously awaiting return orders. Nobody can ever 
know how it will seem to see good old Butler once 
more. 

Chaplain Thomas Guy Mantle, A. B., '20 : March 26, 
1919. In April, 1917, I was studying Ethics in Butler 
College, A month after the declaration of war I was 
studying to become an officer in the Officers' Reserve 
Corps of the United States Army. Militarily, I was 
called a candidate for a commission in the First Offi- 
cers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, In- 
diana; civically, I was a ministerial student ready to 
be of service to my country. I tried to serve well dur- 
ing those three months of training. With surprising 
promptitude I was present at most drill formations, 
inspections, study periods, mess calls, maneuvers, and 



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even the assembly when commissions were handed out. 
I drew a second lieutenancy; in addition, an assign- 
ment to duty with the Eighty-fourth division at Camp 
Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. As there was no necessity 
for my presence at Camp Taylor for two weeks, the 
War Department allowed me to do whatever I pleased. 
I pleased to be married. Then I visited my home. 

On August 27, 1917, 1 was at my new station of duty. 
Though having orders to report to the commanding 
general, I permitted a colonel to assign me to the Three 
Hundred Thirty-third Infantry. Soon this regiment 
began to receive its quota of selected service men from 
southern Illinois. Company M started out with men 
of German ancestry from Belleville and real Italians 
from East St. Louis. Upon acquaintance I found them 
to be good Americans and subject to my orders even 
as I was subject to the orders of my superiors. I 
tired of too much training and drill exercises; conse- 
quently, I apfjlied for a commission as chaplain. 

This time I was ordered to report to the command- 
ing officer of the Thirteenth Machine Gun Battalion, 
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. San Antonio was an agree- 
able change from the wintry weather of Louisville, and 
my wife and I spent February and March there, very 
pleasantly. On April 5, came orders for departure for 
overseas. I did not know where the battalion was 
going, but I bade my wife goodbye and asked her to 
send letters to Camp Merritt, New Jersey. At this last 
station in the United States we did not remain long 
enough to receive mail. 

April 15 to 28 were spent aboard the S. S. Phila- 
delphia. Landing at Liverpool we proceeded south 
via Winchester, arriving in France May 1. Le Havre, 
like Winchester, had a misnamed rest camp. British 



142 BUTLER COLLEGE 

troops loaned us blankets and showed us where to 
sleep on the floor. But the American military machine 
found us in a couple of days and moved us by night 
troop train to Bar-sur-Aube, Department de PAube. 
Here for a month we had intensive training. Again 
the general took recognition of our presence and after 
looking over the division went back to his headquarters 
and issued orders that put us on the firing line, or 
rather in the trenches. 

The Thirteenth Machine Gun Battalion and Sixth 
Infantry joined the Twenty-sixth Division at Menil-la- 
Tour and remained with them until the middle of June. 
Then they rejoined the remainder of the Fifth Division 
at Gerardmer in the Anould Sector of the Vosges 
Mountains. The men of the battalion spent a few days 
in the trenches near Ban de Laveline, but suffered no 
casualties. On July 10, we were relieved by Colonial 
troops from French Indo-China and went back to a 
training area near Epinal, Vosges. By the first of 
August we were again on the front line in the Saint Die 
Sector, About August 20, the battle of Frapelle took 
place and was our first taste of a real engagement. A 
negro division fresh from Dixie relieving us, we went 
back to our old training ground near Epinal. In one 
week we began to travel by night and to sleep by day 
enroute to St. Mihiel Salient. 

On the morning of September 12, we went over the 
top in the first real offensive. As the machine gunners 
were scattered everywhere, I joined the Eleventh In- 
fantry for duty in the battle. All the first day I as- 
sisted with the wounded. German prisoners were used 
to carry those who could not walk. Comforting words 
were said to those found dying. Shells had no attrac- 
tion for me, but I felt that if I must die soon I could not 



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be taken from a more Christ-like work. On the second 
day of the battle I began to bury the dead, and for 
four days I buried about twenty daily. After Septem- 
ber 17, we were on the way to our next battle; and 
from that date until October 23 I belonged to the 
Eleventh Infantry. This regiment went to Dieulouard 
near Pont-a-Mousson to support a French di\'ision. 
One Sunday the Boche began to shell the mess line of 
the First Battalion, Eleventh Infantry and Company 
C, Fifteenth Machine Gun Battalion, and killed out- 
right twenty-two men. These men were loaded in 
trucks and taken to a cemetery. A sergeant, a corporal 
and I slept beside them until the next morning when 
we buried them in time to join the regiment which was 
moving toward the great Argonne — Meuse offensive. 
This mighty battle was on the same ground where the 
French had yearly held the troops of the Crown Prince. 
We entered it from Montfaucon and went forward in 
the rain and mud to Dun-sur-Meuse. The suffering 
was far beyond anything before experienced. My time 
was taken up entirely with the burial of the fallen. 
After coming out for a rest, orders were handed saying 
I must go to the Thirty-second Division. I joined my 
new unit after walking across a large field and was 
assigned to the One Hundred Twenty-first Field Ar- 
tillery. This was a vacation as compared with my 
infantry duties. On November 1, the last big barrage 
was put over and my regiment was so depleted of 
horses and transportation that it could not keep up 
with the fleeing Germans. 

After the Armistice the infantr^^ of the Thirty- 
second Division went onward into Germany^ but the 
artillery went into billets near Bar-le-Duc. I remained 
with them until transferred to the Third Armv Head- 



144 BUTLER COLLEGE 

quarters at Coblenz on Rhine. Here I arrived in time 
for a Christmas dinner and was promptly assigned to 
Evacuation Hospital No. 2. Again I was kept busy 
burying soldiers dying of pneumonia and contagious 
diseases. With the coming of Spring the hospital duty 
lightened and I was sent to the Twenty-sixth Infantry, 
First Division, from which point I am looking forward 
to my return to America. 

LiEUTEisrANT Basil N. Bass, A. B., '20. Forty-first 
Aero Squadron: Besangon University, April 1, 1919. 
The Quarterly is a pleasure and a comfort. I read 
every word of it with all my gratitude ... I have met 
only one Butler man since we left the States. My 
squadron is stationed near Toul and I often visited 
Nancy with other pilots from my organization. It was 
there that I ran on to "Tow" Bonham. We spent the 
greater part of two days talking over old times, the 
past war, and our present work. He is taking at Nancy 
a course in letters, similar to the one I am taking here. 

This is a wonderful old town, very interesting and 
beautiful. The Doubs river flows around it in horse- 
shoe fashion. I have discovered that some of the old 
Gallic chieftains who used to cause me so much trouble 
when I was trying to translate Caesar's Wars, lived 
right around here. That is not exactly against the 
town but the fact takes something from its historical 
value, for me at least. 

The university was founded in 1287, and some of the 
professors have evidently been here ever since. 
Really, some are past the age of speaking plainly. In 
spite of this fact, I understand the university stands 
high in France. The course will end on July 1, and I 
hope my squadron will then be ordered home. 



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Lieutenant Myron M. Hughel, A. B., '18 : Gievres, 
Loir et Cher, April, 1919. I am glad a record is mak- 
ing of the pare the Butler boys have played in the great 
struggle. For a while, I thought we were coming home 
"toot sweet" and I could then give you my little story 
in person. 

Since the second week of February we have been 
back in the intermediate section of the service of sup- 
ply. Lots of work of varied nature is to bo done here ; 
and while our men have been working trying to get 
these roads in shape to keep our contract with the 
French to make up for the road deterioration caused 
•by our army the officers have been detailed on duties 
of administration that those who saw nothing of serv- 
ice of supply often forget about. There has been much 
work to do. Before we moved back we had no concep- 
tion of what was going on in the rear. 

I would like to be right now in Irvington to greet old 
friends, especially as I would so much like to thank all 
of them heartily, personally, for their constant good 
wishes and their constant sacrifices of very necessities 
for the lightening of the soldiers' tasks. The com- 
pleted story of the war will probably never be written 
— that is, in one set of volumes; for the honor of 
America's stand is due not only to the uniformed 
forces in France, nor alone to the uniformed forces at 
home and abroad, but to every last American in uni- 
form or not. It was the stand of a nation rather than 
that of an army. Lots of us — all of us — are coming 
home (if we ever get home) singing the praises of those 
who gave the army. There have been no decorations 
for all of you at home for your courage and your great 
part, but they could well have been given. My best 
wishes to all of old Butler. 



146 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Sergeant B. Wallace Lewis, A. B. '15: Paris, 
April 8, 1919. Remember Professor Greene and his 
lengthy discourses on the Sorbonne ? Little did I ever 
think when I was listening to them that I would ever be 
a denizen of the Quartier Latin and myself a student in 
these ancient halls of erudition. 

I am tremendously glad that I didn't go to Oxford. 
This is infinitely better. We are too much like the 
English, our philosophy, our literature, our ideals are 
Anglo-Saxon and essentially the same. Here I en- 
counter a new and most refreshing point of view. 
French culture is marvelous. Not only has the war 
justified it over its opponent ''Kultur," but I have had 
the opportunity of contrasting the two in their social 
manifestations, and life itself justifies it more com- 
pletely than the war. The French thought of the best 
type is marvelous, exact and detailed to a greater 
degree than ours (something like the better phase of 
Teutonic thought), broad and fair like the English, and 
at the same time it shows a typically GalUc wit and 
verve and brilliance. I verily believe that French 
culture is the superior of the world. 

I can never explain, nor attempt to, my love for 
France. Some English poet whose name I have for- 
gotten said, '* France has been the soldier of God." 
Doomed at the outset by her peculiar geographical 
position to a principal part in the ebb and flow of the 
tides of human history, France has nobly played her 
part — defending civilization many times against the 
barbarian to the last drop of her precious blood and to 
the last jot of her resources. An artistic and impres- 
sionable people, yet possessing the qualities of solidity 
and stability (which the Anglo-Saxon has without their 
animating brilliance), the French have more than any 



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other race paid the price of civilization, more stagger- 
ing this last time than ever before. The French Revo- 
lution (the most tremendous event in the history of 
man) was the crowning achievement in man's long 
fight for personal liberty. It could have happened 
only in France. For only the French temperament 
could have pushed its horrors to a successful con- 
clusion. And their Art ! Less profound than the Ger- 
man, less graceful than the Italian, it is greater than 
either. Paris is the most artistic city in the world, it 
has been the artistic capital for fifteen centuries. 
Their literature is second only to that graced by 
Shakespeare. But the greatest of all is the people. 
Gay, brilliant, effervescent, they captivate the world. 
If one could forget their gigantic sacrifice and indom- 
itable spirit of the last four years, he would still love 
the French. But it is as that that France mil be re- 
membered. The world mil forget Hugo, Pasteur, 
Corneille, Moliere, and all of their achievements in 
other fields in comparison with their last and greatest. 
Foch will replace Napoleon; Clemenceau, Richelieu; 
Guynemer, Bayard — and others. France with her back 
to the wall, defeated, ruined, despairing of everything, 
decimated, for three long years, rose anew in the last 
triumphant year to a greater effort than her first one. 
That is the sublimest thing in French history and the 
thing that will make France, to whom the world was 
already debtor, greater and more glorious forever. 

Germany certainly has played the Frankenstein 
when she created the monster Bolshevism. I hope the 
thing she created will destroy her, but that would be a 
terrible danger for the rest of the world. I tell you, 
the future was never darker. I don 't know how things 
are at home, but I am afraid for America. With the 



148 BUTLER COLLEGE 

American's penchant (especially the radical American) 
for following a fad, Bolshevism is a very real and very 
terrible menace, even in the land of the Free. Where 
is our great leader that history tells us always arises 
to meet a crisis! Where is he? It is certainly time 
for him to put in his appearance. 

I wish I could explain to you the sensations I felt 
the other day when I stood with bowed head at the 
tomb of the mightiest man in history and looked at the 
tattered flags of a hundred glorious campaigns. A 
tablet above the massive bronze doors of his tomb says, 
''I desire that my ashes repose on the banks of the 
Seine in the midst of the French people I have so 
greatly loved. " They do. And the whole world comes 
to do them homage. Frenchmen worn and discouraged 
by the defeats of the last war came and looked upon the 
relics of France's old greatness and took new heart. 
Englishmen came, too, to the grave of their ancient 
enemy, to take courage against their last and greatest 
foe. 

I am certainly enjoying my work in Paris. It is an 
experience worth more than money. But fascinating 
as Paris is, and pleasantly as the time passes, and val- 
uable as my stay here is, I yearn all the time for ''le 
retour" when I can go back to my own people. No 
foreign land however wonderful can ever take the place 
in my affections of that wonderful land I'm trying to 
serve. Absence surely teaches love of country. The 
happiest day of my life will be when I salute the God- 
dess of Liberty, because I will feel then that I am 
back again with my own family, and that actual re- 
union will soon follow. You ought to experience the 
thrill of seeing floating over the Hotel Crillon the 
Stars and Stripes. It is surrounded by other flags, no 



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doubt glorious and thrilling to some: the Union Jack, 
the Tri-color, are fine flags, beautiful and significant. 
But there is only one that makes you catch your breath, 
and the little shivers run up and down your spine, and 
your eyes sometimes smart a little — there's only one 
that means all that you hold dear, there is only one 
that stands for Home. 

Hilton U. Brown, A. B., '80: France, 1919. 
Paris, June 3. — On the first anniversary of the battle 
of Chateau-Thierry, when the fate of nations hung by 
a thread, the valley of the Mame was a dream of sun- 
shine and peace. Apple orchards were in bloom, the 
meadows were green, and the wild flowers softened 
the rough edges of shell holes in Belleau Wood and the 
fields about Lucy, Torcy, Vaux and the other towns 
that were once the suburbs of the little city that gave 
its name to a battlefield made immortal by American 
soldiers. 

There is a good, broad highway (like that which 
Sheridan followed to Winchester to^vn) that leads 
eastward from Paris direct to Chateau-Thierry, about 
sixty miles by the highways, but much closer as a shell 
would travel. The road begins as a city street and 
becomes a main artery not only to Meaux and the 
Chateau region, but on to Metz. It is an old, old 
thoroughfare and many gallant and jaded armies have 
traversed it. But none perhaps contributed more to 
history than the di^dsions from the United States that 
marched over its solid granite block and macadam sur- 
face a year ago in response to Marshal Foch's request 
for help to stem the German tide that was overwhelm- 
ing France. 

This is not a history of the battle, but, if anything, 



150 BUTLER COLLEGE 

merely an outline of the setting. Picture Paris calm, 
but ready for flight. The old and feeble had already 
been sent south for safety. The bulk of the popula- 
tion was awaiting the order to go. When the wind 
blew from the east and north the guns could be heard. 
The peril was real. If the outlying armies were de- 
feated there was no intent on the part of the French 
to subject their city to siege and destruction, but to 
continue the battle south and beyond the city. At this 
juncture the American troops enter on the scene. They 
did not pass through the city, but around it, and on to 
the highway referred to. After they passed through 
Meaux, facing east, the Second American Division 
began to meet the retreating remnants of the French 
army, hollow-eyed, powder burnt, sagging with over- 
whelming weariness from four days of unrelieved 
fighting and retreating. 

Some shook their heads at the folly of these strap- 
ping youngsters from the west, venturing to thrust 
themselves in the way of that onrushing victorious 
Hun avalanche. These said the end was at hand and 
that the Americans would better save themselves. Eye 
and ear Avitnesses testify as to the answers. Weary 
only of drilling and waiting the reinforcements, they 
asked for a chance to get at the Germans. The road 
was packed with solid columns of American infantry 
and artillery, hot for action. 

"What do you think we came here for?" the dough- 
boy asked. 

A French officer commanding seventy chasseurs, 
remnant of a regiment, asked an American colonel: 

' ' Shall we die here or do you wish us to pass through 
your troops ? ' ' 

''Pass through and give us your places. You have 



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done enough." And the Second division made way 
for the grimy seventy to pass to rest, together with 
scattered fragments of scores of units that had been 
shot to pieces. 

And so the Americans came under fire. The Boche 
artillery and air men had located the road. The infan- 
try and artillery passed to right and left, while the two 
regiments of marines attached to the Second division 
had already gone to the left of the road and engaged 
the Germans at Lucy and later in the woods beyond, 
now known as Belleau Wood. 

Twelve months after the battle, Lucy is still a white 
ruin, its hmestones and mortar ground to powder by 
the guns, its houses unroofed and its walls, that had 
stood for years and some for centuries, tumbling from 
shell fire. And yet the village is not obliterated, and 
a few of its people have returned. In the road way are 
still evidences of an ammunition dump exploded by a 
German shell. The marines had piled their rifle and 
machine gun cartridges under a tree. When the shell 
struck, it set this ammunition to going at such a rate 
that the Americans feared for a moment that the 
enemy had got into the rear. The tree was blasted 
and its leafless, amputated limbs afford scant shade 
for the children who play beneath it in the mound of 
shells, some of them unexploded. Through the opened 
wall of the roofless church the crucified Christ may 
be seen hanging to the cross, most pathetic of all the 
objects in that glut of ruin. Out in the roadway a hen 
with her brood stirs up the dust and tries to fly over 
the broken wall when the sergeant-chauffeur drives 
that way. A bent old woman stands where once was 
her doorway and looks at the meager life and the 
gloomy chaos about her. 



152 BUTLER COLLEGE 

But out in the fields the farmers, such as remain, and 
many women folk are at work. The smaller shell 
holes have been filled. Nature and husbandry are be- 
ginning to heal the scars of war except in the towns. 
Here little or nothing of repair is to be seen. It will be 
better to lay out towns in the virgin fields than to at- 
tempt to rebuild, but home ties are strong. 

As in Lucy, so in these other towns one finds a dis- 
mal monotony of wreckage. The Germans are, of 
course, the sole cause of this desolation, though not all 
of the destruction is due to Boche guns. Let Vaux and 
her people speak: The Germans took the town, the 
inhabitants fleeing. Here are old houses, once sound 
and even pretentious. There are deep cellars and a 
covered stream that passes through and under the vil- 
lage. Hiding in these the Germans opened fire on the 
Americans. Some of the inhabitants fled to Captain 
Harper of Battery F, Seventeenth Field Artillery, and 
asked him to dislodge the enemy from their homes. 
They pointed out the strongest buildings with deepest 
cellars and told him that there the invaders were in 
hiding with their machine guns. They begged him to 
fire and he did. His battery of 155 's threw 1,044 shells 
into the village and when the infantry took it by as- 
sault only one hundred or more Germans remained 
alive. If the excavators ever go deep enough they will 
find the bones of Prussian guards where the natives 
were wont to store their wines and winter vegetables. 

But what of that gay and eager throng in khaki that 
late in May a year ago went valiantly down the Metz 
road? They fought in all these villages, in the Belleau 
"Wood and on to Chateau-Thierry, where, with the un- 
conquerable Second and Third and Rainbow and other 
divisions, they first shocked and astounded the Ger- 



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mans by the method and ferocity of their attack and 
finally forced them into retreat, changing the cam- 
paign from defensive to offensive warfare and ulti- 
mate triumph in the Argonne. But they paid a price. 

Near every village and often in fields and roads 
remote from dwellings is a soldiers' graveyard. By 
thirties, fifties or hundreds, ''row on row" lie the dead 
that died not in vain. The burial places are clean and 
free from underbrush or weeds. A barbed wire fence 
surrounds each yard and a cross stands at the head of 
each grave. To the wooden cross, thirty inches high, 
is attached a metallic circular disc bearing the colors of 
the United States. There is also a metallic plate on 
which is stamped the name, number and unit of the 
buried soldier. His identification tag is also attached 
to the cross with wire and at the head of each grave is 
a small flag, bright and unfaded, fluttering with every 
breeze. A few graves, alas, are marked "unknown," 
but for the most part identification has been complete 
and precautions are taken to preserve the identifica- 
tion inviolate. 

Below the crest on which Belleau Wood stands, 
burial parties are digging concentration graves. These 
are five feet deep by sixty in length. Into these places 
the scattered dead will be brought. Overlooking them 
is a small tower at the crest of Belleau Wood — a build- 
ing that was once a lodge or caretaker's place. From it 
the battlefield may be surveyed. The hill itself is fear- 
fully torn with shell fire and wdth dugouts. Projecting 
rocks afforded hiding places for the Boche and often 
in these dugouts the remains of Germans are still to 
be found. German prisoners have recovered and 
buried many of their comrades, but scores of these 
dead can never be identified. 



154 BUTLER COLLEGE 

There are places in Belleau Wood where life above 
ground was impossible. On two trees within the reach 
of one 's outstretched arm were counted eighteen bullet 
holes, and where anything was left to indicate a bullet's 
flight the marks everywhere were as numerous as in 
the instance related. And so the men ''dug in" and 
even there they were not safe, for the visible remains 
tell of the carnage. 

Had not the American troops shown the courage 
and tenacity necessary to drive the entrenched enemy 
from this all but impregnable stronghold, the war 
probably would not have ended when and as it did, and 
the outcome of the march on the road from Paris would 
have differed from this narrative. 

As it was, these American soldiers can not be for- 
gotten by the French. Diplomats and cabinets may 
quarrel, and peoples may be estranged, but it will be 
hard to believe that the French, who saw these troops 
come into action in the nick of time and in the hour of 
disaster, can forget. Certainly now they smile on the 
Yanks in the chateau country and meet them as friends 
and brothers. 

Chateau-Thierry itself was only an incident in this 
great battle. From the hill on which the old chateau was 
built first more than a thousand years ago, the city in 
the valley below, spread along the Marne, may be seen 
to the last tile on the roofs. The business heart of the 
city was blown to pieces by German air men who 
thought American headquarters were there, but the 
greater part of Chateau- Thierry remains intact. The 
French are selling off army horses there to the farm- 
ers (at about $325 each) ; the occasional relic hunter is 
to be seen on his rounds, and the River Marne, about 
as big as Fall creek, but with more water and greater 



IN THE WORLD WAR 155 

uniformity of flow and depth, clean and clear, now 
flows on its way uninterruptedly, carrying to the very 
gates of Paris, where it unites with the Seine, its canal 
boat cargoes of provisions for the saved and sacred 
capital of France. 



CHAPTER III 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Day 
JUNE 17, 1919 

' THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, FOUR o'CLOCK 

President Howe: Friends, at this time of the year, 
at the end and the beginning of things, our thoughts 
are wont to leap lightly back. Today we are taking a 
little time out of the busy, hurrying world, to think of 
some things that ought to remain forever fresh in our 
minds and to influence us as we go down through the 
years. 

I think, today, of those happy June days — those be- 
ginning June days — five years ago, when all the world 
was at peace — or seemed to be — when all was fair, and 
no one thought of anything else than the common trou- 
bles of every-day life. That was a long time ago. That 
was in the days of the old world. Today we are in the 
new world, and between the two there lies a great and 
flaming gulf — between those June days of 1914 and 
these of 1919, there is a wide and terrible chasm. Little 
did we think of what could come to us; little did we 
dream of the changes that would find their way into 
our lives ; and I wonder if we should have had the cour- 
age, had w^e known just then what was ahead of us, to 
meet the issues that have faced us since those bright 
June days of the olden time ? 

There came a great flash and a summoning of all the 
world to arms. AVo had thought, sometimes, as v/o 

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theorized and philosophized, that the days of real love 
of country had passed; that we no longer had such 
patriots as in the days of the Civil War, when 
those boys went out from this college, well-nigh two 
hundred strong, at the call of the country 's need, ready 
and willing to make the supreme sacrifice if need be. 

It seems like a horrid nightmare, and we wonder as 
we recall the days through which we have lived how 
we have endured them. There is not one of us into 
whose life anxiety and care and grief have not come. 
But, I think that we would not be willing to have it 
out of our life. Terrible as it is, I am sure we are 
better men and better women because we have lived 
through it and have survived. It has burned the dross 
and the earth out of some of us. We have appreciated 
certain things that seemed of little worth in former 
times, and we have come nearer to understanding the 
real values of life. 

In the colleges boys, and girls too, were perhaps for- 
getting what their country meant, how precious its 
liberties, the meaning of human life, and what justice 
signified in the world. But when the call came, it was 
from the colleges of our land that the greater number, 
relatively, went than from any other place. And that 
was as it should have been. Because, my friends, if 
the picked boys and girls in the colleges and other 
places of learning do not respond to the call of service 
and of duty, then there can be little hope for the 
world; and it is the glory of this nation today that 
those colleges and universities that have been fostered 
by the prayers and the sacrifices of those who founded 
them have not proven untrue to what was expected of 
them. They have shown themselves worthy to survive, 
as they did in the days of the great struggle between 
the brothers of the North and the South. 



158 ^ BUTLER COLLEGE 

And so, this afternoon we may say to ourselves ''Is 
it possible that we have gone through all this, and that 
it seems to be well-nigh over?" We have come 
together here — friends of the college some, and some 
others of those who answered the call and went out in 
the service of the Nation. And this, soldier and sailor- 
boy friends, is your day ! We have come here to hear 
some words from you; we have come to feel, together, 
the thrill of the common love that we have for our 
Alma Mater; we have come to fix a little more clearly 
in our minds a real picture of what this one little col- 
lege, out of almost six hundred, has done as its share 
in the great world struggle. 

It was a goodly number who went out from this col- 
lege to take their part, who took the oath of allegiance 
to our flag, and who committed themselves to the task 
assigned to them, whether it was to stay right here and 
study, whether it was to go into the training camps, 
whether it was to go onto the ocean with its dangers 
seen and unseen, or whether it was to go to the fighting 
front, through shot and shell and deadly gas and all 
the rest of that hell-front — doing their duty wherever 
sent. 

We welcome you back this afternoon, we welcome 
you home. There are some who can not be here. There 
are others who are far away, even across the sea; there 
are others whose business would not permit their com- 
ing in person, although we know that their hearts are 
with us. Those of us who are here must feel and speak 
for all. We, who have been the stay-at-homes, have 
gone with you in affection and in prayers by night and 
by day, and we welcome you back. We hope that 
you will not regret, as the years come and go, the 
sacrifices you have made and the part that you have 
played. 



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This afternoon we are to have talks by some of the 
boys. 

Sergeant Herman James Sheedy, A. B., '20 

''The Students' Army Training Corps" 

President Howe, and Friends: I confess that I feel 
rather out of place this afternoon. I feel that I have 
done so little, while these other men, who are next to 
speak, have done so much. 

However, I am very glad that the S. A. T. C. is to be 
represented, because I feel that it has been generally 
misunderstood. The fact that it was not a raving suc- 
cess was not due to its purpose, its management, or its 
organization. Nor was it due to the character of the 
men who were in it. It was due merely to the fact that 
it did not have time to prove itself. Had the war con- 
tinued another year, as everyone thought it would con- 
tinue, the S. A. T. C. would have been recognized as one 
of the greatest branches of our army. It would have 
been recognized as the greatest source of officer ma- 
terial. 

Our government realized that by July 1, of this year, 
it would need one hundred and fifty thousand addi- 
tional second lieutenants, and it thought the best place 
to find them was in the colleges. For this purpose the 
S. A. T. C. was founded. 

Training camps were established at Plattsburg, Fort 
Sheridan, and in California, and representatives from 
one hundred and fifty colleges in the United States 
were sent to those three training camps. Late in 
September those men were sent back to their colleges 
to act as assistant military directors. 



160 BUTLER COLLEGE 

There were about two hundred and seventy-five men 
who came to Butler to attend the S, A. T. C. For 
various reasons we lost a few of them, so that the final 
roster showed two hundred and sixty-four men, and of 
those two hundred and sixty-four men, every one was 
a high school graduate and was perfectly sound, mor- 
ally, mentally and physically! That was as fine a 
bunch of men as you could get together at any time, 
or at any place; and every one of them came here 
reahzing that at any minute he would be subject to call, 
and that when he took the oath, he became a member 
of our army, just as surely, just as completely, as any 
man who was wearing the uniform. 

Of course it took a few dsijs to settle down, but, after 
the first week or two, the unusual life, the living in bar- 
racks, and the drilling had become an old story and we 
got along very well. 

It seemed to be the ideal combination, just the right 
proportion of brains and of brawn, and at the time we 
received our discharges, things were running along 
smoothly. 

We had our share of the influenza, of course, but 
due to the good medical attention that we were given, 
we had but one loss — Russell Mercer, of Anderson. He 
made many friends while here, and everyone who 
knew him was truly grieved to hear of his death. How- 
ever, I am sure that we were very fortunate, indeed, 
that out of this two hundred and sixty-four men, just 
one man was lost. 

The aim of the S. A. T. C. was high, and I do not 
believe it was a failure. I know that I am proud to 
have been in it, and every man who was in the organ- 
ization should be glad that he was allowed to wear the 
uniform — the same uniform that was worn by every 
man in the service. 





ARTHUR JAMES PERRY 
Major, 77th Infantry 



HOWARD CLAY CALDWELL 
Ensign, United States Navy 





HERMAN .JAMES SHEEDY 

Sergeant, Students' Army 

Training Corps 



HARRISON CALE 

Corporal, 6th United States 

Marines 



IN THE WORLD WAR 161 

If the war had continued another year, these men, 
drilled out there on Irwin Field, might now be in 
France. That was the purpose for which they came 
here, and they realized that they would be sent across 
just so fast as they were prepared. 

Major Arthur James Perry, '15 
''The Home Camp." 

President Howe, and fellow members of former 
times: Glancing do^vn at this mark on my arm, I was 
reminded that while there were, perhaps, two million 
men in France, entitled to be decorated with the blue 
chevron and the gold chevron and some of them, now, 
with three gold chevrons, there are about ten million 
of us, more or less, who are still wearing the silver 
chevron. 

I would like to relate a story that my last Division 
Commander was very fond of telling, and it may be 
some consolation to those of us who stayed on this side. 
The gentleman to whom I refer, Major-General Hutch- 
inson, joined the army back in the days when the In- 
dians were in the habit of having festivities of their 
o'svn, and it was necessary, at intervals, to despatch 
troops of cavalry out to subdue the Red Man. It so 
happened that General Hutchinson, then a new second 
lieutenant and, in the language of the army, known as 
a shave-tail, had joined his command down in New 
Mexico, only a few days before the occurrence, which 
I shall relate. One of the troops was to be sent out to 
look after some of the Indians and the General was 
very anxious to go. Having had four years of West 
Point, he debated whether he should go directly to the 
captain and ask to be permitted to go. Well, he 



162 BUTLER COLLEGE 

thought he would do what he could. It so happened 
that it was his time to stand stables and look after the 
grooming of the horses and all that, and he made sure 
that the work of the sergeants and the corporals was 
exceedingly well done, and when they were about 
through, the captain, who was a typical officer of the 
old school, came around [of course, the 3^oung lieuten- 
ant clicked his heels together and gave a very elab- 
orate salute], and said, "Yes, I see that the picket line 
is, indeed, in very fair shape," and he looked around. 
Lieutenant Hutchinson remarked, "Captain, I under- 
stand they are going to send a patrol out after those 
Lidians. " "Yes, yes, I understand they are. Yes, 
this picket line is in very nice shape." Finally Lieu- 
tenant Hutchinson mustered up courage to say to the 
captain, "Well, Captain, I would like to take that pa- 
trol out," and the old captain looked down at him and 
replied, "Well, my boy, let me tell you one thing. 
When Uncle Sam wants you, he knows where you are, 
and he will come and get you. So go ahead and keep 
your picket line in good shape, and that is all you are to 
do." 

Now, that is exactly the situation in which we all 
found ourselves when we had to stay here at home. It 
reminds one of a game of chess, in which each individ- 
ual member is nothing more than a pawn. 

Some of my good friends here were among the few 
who were sent across. But there were a lot of good 
men, and units of the regular army, who were kept on 
this side. 

The only consolation that comes to me is the thought 
that perhaps some of these units were retained at home 
owing to the situation in which England found herself, 
due to the lack of British officers. England was abso- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 163 

lutely stripped, because she sent over practically all 
of her trained troops in the very first advance. We 
were advised to keep some of our trained men on this 
side, to drill and to instruct the new units as they were 
brought in. Whatever consolation that offers, wc must 
take it. 

My own experience in this war, I am forced to recall, 
was had \Wthin three hundred miles of my home. Just 
think of putting in twenty-three months Avithin three 
hundred miles of your own home, and feeling that at 
any minute you might be called to go across ! 

I have been in four of the largest training camps in 
the country, and I want to say to you that the govern- 
ment has handled the units in such a way that I don't 
see how anj^thing could have been done to improve that 
work. The government erected enormous plants in a 
very short time. 

There were some mighty black days back there in 
1917. Even in the fall of that year, I saw men drilling 
in overalls, instead of uniforms, and sleeping under 
comforts of every kind, confiscated from department 
stores or anywhere they could get them. But they lived 
through it all, and I think that every man, whether he 
got across or stayed near his own home, feels that he is 
a broader and better man for this service and expe- 
rience. 

Ensign Howard Clay Caldwell, A. B., '15 

''The United States Navy" 

Mr. President, I recall, when I used to be a regular 
attendant here at chapel not very many years ago, 
that it was always keenly disappointing to have a mis- 
sionary from Africa, or some other place, come and 



164 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

give US a talk on the general broadening influence of 
English History, or something like that. I always 
figured that I would have been much better satisfied 
had he talked a little about his OAvn experiences. That 
is one of the reasons that I shall confine what I have 
to say to the "Battle of the Great Lakes." 

I wonder how many sailors happen to be here this 
afternoon. I would like to see your hands. Well, 
there are so few of you that I ought to be able to get 
away with almost anything. 

Had I been nine pounds heavier when I enlisted in 
the navy, I might have been a fireman. They were 
needed pretty badly at that time. But standards are 
standards, and they finally decided to pass me up. 
I eventually got in as an apprentice seaman. I didn't 
know much about the job at that time, but I learned a 
good deal a little later on. The apprentice seaman, you 
know, is the fellow who makes the navy such a clean, 
desirable branch of the service ! 

I suppose that every man who has been in camp 
recalls very vividly the first reveille. I am sure I do. 
It was at that time that I was introduced to that often 
to be repeated and never to be misunderstood sum- 
mons, "Hit the deck, you'se birds!" When we heard 
that we always tumbled from our hammocks, scared to 
death, for fear we hadn 't got out quickly enough. One 
of the men in our company wanted to know what he 
was to hit the deck with! Well, he soon found out. 
They handed him a mop. The fact of the matter is that 
we became very expert in the use of the mop. That 
is a very indispensable article about the ship, as some 
of you men may know. Well, I began by scrubbing 
down the so-called decks, three times a day, and then 
when we ran out of anything else to do, we scrubbed 



IN THE WORLD WAR 165 

them down some more! They had to keep us busy 
those days. 

Since seeing other rookies, just after they had made 
their transformation from the cities to the apparel of 
the Gobs — and, by the way, that is what the sailors 
prefer to be called — Gobs — not Jackie s — I was rather 
glad that they didn't permit cameras in those days, 
whereby the spectacle that I made of myself might 
have been perpetuated, because, like most of the other 
boys, I would have wanted to send a picture home to 
my family, just to show them how their boy looked ! 

There were about a thousand or more men com- 
ing in to the Great Lakes station, and the clothing was 
issued in cafeteria style. We marched along and some 
hard-boiled gentleman on the other side of the counter 
would throw us the size of clothing that he happened 
to think we needed, and it didn 't make much difference 
whether we got blouses, or handkerchiefs, or hats, but 
we had to be on the lookout when boots and shoes came 
over ! The worst tragedy, and one that frequently hap- 
pened, was when a fellow got clothes that were in- 
tended for the six-footer just behind him. Of course 
the salt}^ individuals on the other side of the counter 
didn't always throw where they intended, and they 
didn't have time to rectify mistakes. Naturally, 
there was a good deal of swapping after we came from 
the outfitters, and what swapping failed to take care 
of, the tailors fixed us up on. I am glad to say that the 
navy would not tolerate ill-fitting uniforms. 

But why is the sailor's uniform, anyway? Most 
people wonder about that. Really, I don 't know, unless 
it is because England had specialized on her navy so 
long and with such success that it was well to emulate 
her in that respect. But there is really a reason back 



166 BUTLER COLLEGE 

of the peculiarities of the sailor's uniform — even to 
the flopping trouser legs. They are mighty easy to roll 
up at scrubbing time. That is a universal reason. 
Most of the others are British. Take, for instance, the 
three stripes on the collar. They represent three of 
the world's decisive battles, generally said to be the 
defeat of the Armada, the battle of the Nile, and the 
battle of Trafalgar. The handkerchief was first intro- 
duced, as I understand, upon the death of the great 
naval hero. Nelson. I don't know that there is any 
particular reason for the style of the officer 's uniform, 
except punishment. This uniform isn't very well 
known in Indianapolis, and I was somewhat taken 
aback, when, in Irvington, one of the venerable citizens 
looked up at me over his glasses, and said, "Well, 
young feller, what band might you be playin' in?" 
The movies have played some part in making the naval 
uniform a familiar sight. The other day, going down 
the street out here, a youngster chanced to see me, and 
ran across to his mother and said, "Oh, mamma, look 
at the moving picture hero ! ' ' 

For fear lest you may infer, from my remarks, that 
about all the sailor has to do is to scrub the decks, I 
might explain that the Gob, especially an apprentice 
seaman, is supposed to know a little of everything. 
First of all, he must learn how to sleep in a hammock 
without falling out. And, by the way, that is no little 
trick, as the hospital records of broken arms and legs 
will attest. He must be able to peel spuds, box the 
compass, and do a whole lot of things besides scrub 
the decks. 

The navy sent five fourteen-inch guns overseas, and 
they put the sailors in marine uniform. Of course, 
they were pretty well back — twenty-five miles, I be- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 167 

lieve, was the average range. But you must give them 
a little credit for that, because they could have gotten 
back forty-two miles mth that gun. 

Some of you men may have heard of that very inter- 
esting piece of naval ordnance called the Davis Double 
Recoil Gun, which was used on aeroplanes during the 
war. That gun fired from both ends at the same time. 
The projectile that went to the rear was a dummy, 
while the one that went forward was a twelve-inch 
projectile, the two recoils neutralizing each other, so 
that there would be practically no shock to the fusilage 
of the plane. The shell was loaded in the middle of 
the gun, and, of course, there was a synchronizing gear 
employed that enabled the gun to shoot through the 
blades of the propeller. The handling of that Davis 
gun, and a great many other weapons, is being taught 
at Great Lakes, where they have organized the Naval 
Gunners' School of the United States. In that school, 
there is a course for aviation mechanics. I was out 
at that plant this spring, and they showed me a sort of 
jewelry shop that they have there, where the fellows 
were tearing do^vn watches and putting them together 
again. I asked them why they had that done, and they 
said that it was done to teach the boy the fine points of 
fine machinery, so that they would appreciate the fine 
points of the gasoline engine. Now, I don't know 
whether they were kidding me or not. 

I suppose the army has a lot of expressions that are 
peculiar to itself. That is true of the navy, I know. 

In the navy you never go to the stern of the ship, you 
always lay aft. You never tie a rope to anything — 
you belay it. You never pick gear out of a box — you 
always break it out. You pipe all hands down, at night, 
to turn to. You never say boatswain — you say bos'n. 



168 BUTLER COLLEGE 

You never say gunwale, you say gun'l. And so on. 
The fact of the matter is you do and say a lot of queer 
things in the navy, besides ' * see the world and learn a 
trade ! ' ' 

Before we entered the war, it used to be a favorite 
pastime of our Chautauqua orators to lambast the bat- 
tleship program. You all recall how they used to tell 
us how many schools could be established with the 
money that it took to build one dreadnaught. Even 
now we see some signs of sinking back into the old rut. 
Before Secretary Daniels went to Europe he was talk- 
ing about a big navy. Now he is back and is talking 
little navy. 

I notice that England has never talked little navy. 
She has produced some very wonderful ships during 
this war. She has produced a type of battle cruiser 
that is beyond anything that we ever dreamed of. We 
were busy building six or eight battle cruisers that 
could make thirty-six knots an hour, when Balfour de- 
cided that he would visit us over here. Some folks 
have said that the ship that brought him came over 
at the rate of fifty miles an hour. But that ship was 
not brought down to New York; it was left up at 
Halifax and Balfour came down by train. 

Before I received my commission somebody told me 
that I would be in until I was sixty-four. Well, I 
hadn't thought of that. Perhaps after I get to that 
point I can join the army. 

But really, my friends, I am glad that I am in the 
naval reserves. I think a well organized Officers ' Ee- 
serve is a good deal more practical in this country than 
is universal military training. I don't hear much en- 
thusiasm about universal training among the men who 
have been in the service. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 169 

I don't want to let this opportunity pass without 
saying a good word for the Y. M. C. A. Even at 
the Great Lakes that organization was subjected to 
much criticism, which, to a great extent, I know was 
absolutely unmerited. The Y. M. C. A. up there 
worked under a great many difficulties. In the camp 
that I was attached to, it was not permitted to have 
a recreation room, but when it came really to doing 
things, I think it was the only organization that went 
out of its way to accommodate the men — speaking from 
my own experience. When the influenza came with- 
out a word of warning at the Great Lakes, the Y. M. 
C. A. secretaries were tireless in their work. Four of 
the secretaries in my own camp died as a result of 
their work among the boys during the epidemic of the 
''flu." 

I am very glad to have an opportunity to express my 
thankfulness to Butler College. When I was here, 
plugging away at mathematics. Prof. Johnson, I didn't 
know that it would be such a short time until mathe- 
matics would come home to roost! If it hadn't been 
for that year of mathematics I would certainly have 
failed to obtain a commission. The navy insists on its 
men knowing navigation. You fellows have probably 
seen those men come out on the bridge and look through 
their little instruments along about noontime. I al- 
ways have a great deal of respect for them. They 
figure a whole lot. That is all they do. 

More than one individual has remarked that the col- 
lege man had the edge on the other fellow in this war. 
Perhaps he did. Anyway it has been mighty good pro- 
paganda for the college. 



170 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Sergeant Clair McTurnan, '11 
""'The Ammunition Train" 

I suspect that here is where the program begins to 
get bad for about fifteen minutes — if I can last that 
long ! If I can 't last that long, it mil begin to get good 
just so much the sooner. I feel very much that I am 
spoiling the program, because I have listened to the 
things that have been said with vast interest, things 
expressed in a better way than I have heard them any- 
where else, at any time — and I have heard a whole lot 
of people talk about the war, too. 

The most that I know about the Avar, anyhow, is 
what I have heard about it. I don't know anything 
from personal contact with the war, of any conse- 
quence. I happened to get to take a nice ride across 
the water, which, by the way, came about by getting 
mixed up with that organization called depot brigade; 
which everybody mshed he was out of, as soon as he 
got in. 

I happened to fall in with a Butler man, who advised 
me that the ammunition train was a very safe place. 
Consequently, I made every effort to get fixed up in 
a place where no German could molest me. After I 
got through with my first three weeks, I decided if 
there was anything left for a German to do with me, 
I would be willing to take a chance. 

I went through that, however, and I began to get 
heavy, and I wanted a change of uniform. But they 
didn 't put anything more on my sleeve than I had when 
I started. The only change in my uniform was in the 
weight of it. When I began to intimate that I was 
pretty old and maybe it would look better if I had 
something on my arm, I was told that it was a thing 



IN THE WORLD WAR 171 

that shouldn't be mentioned, and if you did mention it, 
you would spoil your chances — and some people didn't 
have any chance, anyhow ! 

However, I was finally changed as to my uniform, 
and was inducted into the ammunition train service, 
and I expect I can tell you as much about the ammu- 
nition train as you know if you have ever seen a truck, 
or two, going down the street. 

When I first went into the ammunition train service, 
one of the young men who had been in it for some time 
and had done the same thing that I was doing for six 
months after I got in — which was nothing — told me 
that the ammunition train was a place where they 
trained ammunition to shoot. Well, that sounded 
pretty reasonable, and so I got some ammunition and 
put it in my belt. All of us carried it in our belts, and 
I didn't have the advantage of anybody else, except 
that the fellow who carried a revolver carried tmce as 
many rounds as the fellow who carried a gun. 

Fortunately, I found several of my friends in the 
ammunition train service as I was going across. No- 
body seemed to know why they were taking us across, 
and nobody else knew why he was going across. 

Well, we got across and went into training — that is, 
some of them did. I didn't do much training, myself. 

I will not tell you what I did — it is too simple. 

I will tell you what the fellow said that I worked with 
most of the time. He was a sergeant, or something — 
maybe a corporal — I had got advanced away up to a 
sergeancy at that time — I think they did that because 
I smoked cigars, and they didn 't give cigars away over- 
seas. They did give a lot of cigarettes away, and all 
the men who smoked cigars were advanced, so that they 
could pay the difference. At any rate, the fellow that 



172 BUTLER COLLEGE 

I worked with — I will not say whether I was exactly in 
his class or not — said that if we ever distinguished 
ourselves, it would be with the typewriter. I knew 
it would be that way with me, because I never had 
learned to use more than one finger on the type- 
writer. I found out that skill in the use of the type- 
writer is one of the things that you have got to have 
in the ammunition train service. Then we were told 
that maybe if something happened to everybody else 
in the train, we would get a chance to take a truck and 
go up to the front. Not having had any experience in 
driving a truck I was very busy in contemplating how 
I would do that — how I would lead it up to the front. 

Well, everybody is entitled to a scare — that is, in the 
army — and we got ours. I was coming back from 
Bordeaux, and I met a professor who had been in the 
Government class when I was in school studying law. 
I did want to hear one or two things that he had to 
say. I never knew the man, except that he would ask 
me to read things on the board every once in a while. 
When I got over to Bordeaux, I was meandering 
down the street one day and I saw a fellow who looked 
like this professor — he was nearsighted and he had 
on a pair of these thick lenses, and I knew he was my 
man, so I hailed him and asked him if he remembered 
me, and he said he did. He talked pretty good Eng- 
lish, and we had quite a good conversation, and I ar- 
ranged to do certain work for the ammunition train 
service. I don't know what it was, but by virtue 
of that arrangement I got to go into Bordeaux every 
day, and this man had a charming house, a charming 
wife and served charmingly, and I enjoyed my service 
in the army while I was at Bordeaux. 

Now, I was coming back from Bordeaux one evening 



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a la truck — that is the way that everybody but the 
officers rode, and sometimes they too rode that way — 
a truck is just what it is here, only it has less springs 
over there. The roads are pretty good, however. 
Well, when I got into the gate of the camp, everybody 
seemed to be in quite a commotion — at least; down 
around our headquarters there seemed to be quite a 
commotion. Everybody seemed to be pretty nervous 
and it was rather hard to get any definite statement, 
or answer to a question — especially for a man who 
didn 't run any higher in sleeve decoration than I, But 
I finally found out what was going on. We were going 
to the front, and I proceeded to get as nervous and 
excited as all the rest of them put together, and we all 
proceeded to be lost for a period of half an hour. We 
didn 't go ! It was another ammunition train that went. 
It seems that the order had become confused, and 
another ammunition train had been called out. But I 
did have the sensation, anyhow. 

There is a great deal of humor about being in the 
army — providing you don't take the matter too seri- 
ously. I really found out that if you go at it right 
you can speak to an officer! Of course, you have to 
be careful. But there was, really, a great deal of 
humor, and the officers appreciated humor — but they 
were not permitted to show it in public. I don 't know 
what they did in quarters — except on one or two ac- 
casions, which were privileged and confidential rela- 
tions, to which I can not refer, of course. 

But there were two observations which were really 
worth while that I can remember. 

The first impression that I received was the wonder- 
ful vivacity, the wonderful fervor of the reception that 
was given us by what might be called the proletariat of 



174 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Liverpool. I can not imagine coming into New York 
harbor and receiving any more real, more definite, or 
more enthusiastic welcome than we received in Liver- 
pool, And, the people were, more or less, of the prole- 
tariat type. I was very much surprised, because all 
Englishmen whom I had known were true to the tradi- 
tions, and were extremel}^ conservative in their man- 
ner. I would not have been so much surprised to have 
found so enthusiastic a welcome in Paris. I am sure 
that there was nobody in the ammunition train who did 
not feel that the line between the English common peo- 
ple and the members of the ammunition train was a 
very indistinct line. Old women who had sons in the 
army would greet us and urge us on. Of course that 
was bound to make us feel good. But even feeling as 
well as we did, we couldn't be entirely mistaken about 
analyzing the amount of enthusiasm that we found 
there. 

The second thing that impressed me — and I think it 
impressed everybody else — was the amount of food 
and supplies that were stacked up over there. I sup- 
posed that we had an enormous quantity, but I hadn't 
the slightest conception of what was really there. I 
didn't get over there until 1918 — just in time to come 
back — but I was told that conditions had been the same 
all along with reference to the food supply. I saw 
stacks and stacks of supplies in warehouses. It looked 
to me as if somebody had been doing an awful lot to- 
wards subscribing toward the carrying on of the war, 
over there, who were not doing it in the capacity of 
actual soldiering. If the supplies were as enormous as 
they looked to me, it was certainly a wonderful tribute 
to the work of the people at home, who were not in 
soldier uniform, but who were fighting the preliminary 



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and essential battles which must be fought in just that 
way to win a war. 

If there w^as anything on earth that brought my 
heart back to the people at home, that made me see the 
relation between the poor, weak soldier, mth a belt full 
of ammunition and nothing in his knapsack — it was 
when that broad expansive view of stuff appeared be- 
fore my vision, and I knew that I could fill other things 
besides my knapsack as full as I pleased. 

You can not fail to feel your heart thrill with thank- 
fulness, when you are placed in the situation where 
you know you may be subjected to danger, and you 
realize that there is not one American w^ho has not 
contributed to the welfare of the American soldier on 
foreign soil, and your heart goes back to those who 
are co-operating with you, who are supporting you in 
the United States, not in uniform, but by their earn- 
ings, by contributions to the Red Cross, to the Y. M. 
C. A., to the Salvation Army, and those other glorious 
organizations — your heart goes back to them just as 
surely, just as truly, as it goes forward to the boy in 
the trenches who is to give up his life. 

With these two great bodies of soldiers and con- 
tributing civilians, drawni together in one haraionious 
effort, we could not fail to win the war. 

Corporal Harrison Cale, '07 

''The Turning of the Tide'' 

Mr. President, Soldier Brothers, and Friends : I am 
afraid that after hearing these talks this afternoon, 
if I should tell you some of my experiences I would cast 
gloom over the occasion. I volunteered in the Marine 
Corps immediately after war had been declared, and I 



176 BUTLER COLLEGE 

became a member of the Ninety-sixth company of the 
Sixty-first regiment. There were two regiments of 
marines assigned to the army in France. They com- 
posed the Fourth Brigade of the famous Second di- 
vision. 

These June days are the anniversaries of the series 
of engagements of the Chateau Thierry sector, known, 
officially, as the battle of Chateau Thierry and Belleau 
Wood. It was just a year ago this month, when the 
American marines struck the first smashing blow 
against the German armies which administered the 
first crushing defeat that those armies had experienced 
through four blood}^ years of war. 

There is now a great deal of controversy in the news- 
papers, and often the question is raised as to how it 
was that the Marine Corps received so much credit for 
this action. In explanation of that, I would like to say 
that the Marine Corps left twenty-four hours ahead of 
the other units of the Second division, and when we ar- 
rived on the Chateau Thierry front and met the Ger- 
mans on the Metz-to-Paris road, we were just twenty- 
four hours ahead of every other unit. So it is for that 
reason that we have been given the credit, which, in a 
measure, should go to the other units in our division, 
because if it had not been for their assistance, we would 
not have been able to have held the line after we had 
taken it. 

Just a year ago last May the German army had fin- 
ished a three-months' drive on the Somme front. The 
first British army had been completely routed and 
were on the shores of Flanders, the Belgian coast, 
while English ships stood out at sea, waiting to take 
them off, in order to save as many as possible from 
complete slaughter by the Germans. On the Picardy 
front all of the French reserves had been wiped out. 



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The marines had been in training in Verdun for sixty 
days and had met the Germans on several occasions, 
and had been dubbed by them ' ' The Devil Dogs ! ' ' We 
were one of three units that were nicknamed by the 
Germans during the entire war. They called the Scot- 
tish troops the ''Ladies from Hell"; the Alpine Chas- 
seurs, the "Blue Devils," and the Marine Corps, 
the "Devil Dogs." When they did that, we felt we 
had passed our probationary period and could stand 
alongside the very best troops of Europe. 

We were sent to the Somme front to stop the drive 
which was then threatening the Picardy front. For 
four days and nights we marched down the long, dusty, 
dreary road. Water was scarce. It was hot weather. 
All the horses hitched to our artillery train died along 
the road — walked to death. We had no more than ar- 
rived on the scene of action and prepared to go into the 
engagement, when word came that the Germans had 
struck and that their victorious armiy was advancing 
on Paris at the rate of twenty-five miles a da3^ 

General Pershing then asked General Poch if it 
would be possible to place the American troops in the 
gap, and the Second division was ordered to Chateau 
Thierry. It was for about thirty hours that we were 
loaded on those trucks and most of us had to stand uf) 
with our heavy packs on our backs, but we rode across 
France just as hard as those trucks could be driven. 
In Paris, the trains were backed up in the railroad sta- 
tion, awaiting the evacuation of the civilian population. 

We met the main body of the French army at the 
little village of Vaux, in full retreat. As we advanced 
down the Metz-to-Paris road we found it filled mth 
thousands of refugees, driven before the advancing 
army of the Huns. It was a motley crowd of men, wo- 



178 BUTLER COLLEGE 

men and children, and cattle and carts and everything 
else mixed together. The people were all in despair 
and were sullen, their eyes flashing with hatred. They 
looked at us as though they were saying, "They are 
just like the rest of the men that have gone to the 
front and have never come back." There was no cry 
of joy to speed us on. They simply said, ''Kill the 
Boche," passing their hands across their throats that 
we might understand their meaning. 

This was the crisis that the marines faced when they 
passed down the Metz-to-Paris road on June 1, 1918. 
The Germans were then knocking on the gates of 
Chateau Thierry, and it was said in France that only 
a miracle could save Paris. About five o'clock in the 
evening we got off the trucks that had carried us over, 
and down the road we could see the long line of advanc- 
ing Germans. After four years of bloody warfare, is 
it any wonder that they sang as they came down that 
road, which was as wide and as well built as Washing- 
ton street, on their way to Paris? They had a battery 
of six-inch guns immediately behind their advance, so 
confident were they of victory. They were thirty-nine 
miles from Paris — thirty-nine miles from the heart of 
the allied cause ; victory was in their grasp ! 

But suddenly there arose before them a stone wall of 
resistance. We swung out into skirmish formation, 
and the Boche line did likewise. We then saw that we 
were up against our old friends, the Prussian Guard — 
the finest troops in Europe. As we came closer and 
closer together, there was a flash of bayonets and the 
marines cast the die, to show them that we wanted a 
bayonet fight. On the Boche came, but when he got 
close to us, he wavered, and that was our signal for the 
charge that swept the Prussian Guard off of the Metz- 



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to-Paris road, and sent them hurtling back through the 
woods under the protection of their machine guns. 

It was hard going through the woods. We had to 
crawl through the brush, and shoot the men that were 
in the trees, first, and then get over and bayonet the 
machine gunners. We couldn't locate them when we 
first went into the woods, because we couldn't see just 
where they were. We had to hunt them out. But we 
cleared the woods, finally, and took possession of the 
advantageous points along the road, and that night we 
effectually blocked the road to Paris for the Germans. 

My company was ordered to take the towoi of 
Bouresches, which was the town mentioned in the des- 
patches immediately after you received the word of 
the fight. It was necessary to cross a wheat field two 
hundred yards to get into the town. Before the town 
was a screen of trees and a kind of underbrush thicket. 
The leaves on those bushes vibrated and rattled under 
the crack of the concealed machine guns, as we started 
across the fields, and somebody called out, "Come on, 
do you want to live forever?" And so we started to 
rush forward, and in that American style of fighting 
we pushed on a little way, and then down, and then 
pushed on again, and down again. As we crossed the 
field I had charge of a squad of twelve men. Before 
we had gone a hundred yards eight of the men had been 
shot down. The bullets clicked and cut our clothing 
and shot the ammunition out of our belts. A shell 
passing close to me knocked me off my feet and stunned 
me for a second. The men thought I had been killed, 
but I leaped up and went on with them down through 
the woods. We cleaned out a machine gun nest and 
then went into the town. Out of one hundred and fifty 
men who started for that town there were but twenty- 
four of us who ever reached it. 



180 BUTLER COLLEGE 

There were three hundred Germans in the town when 
we came down the street. They had machine guns or- 
ganized at every point of vantage. They had their 
sharpshooters in every doorway; they had one ma- 
chine gun up in the church steeple, and it was just a 
question of accurate shooting, and quick shooting. 
Well, we cleaned those Huns out of that town. They 
had begun to retreat as we came in, leaving only the 
men who were organized on the strong points. But 
we took that to^vn of Bouresches in less than one hour. 

That was a hand-to-hand bayonet fight. It was cut- 
ting and slashing and sticking at every corner. A 
shell burst over the heads of myself and a lieutenant, 
and made big dents in both our helmets, but we es- 
caped uninjured. As we passed down past the machine 
gun, of which we had just killed the gunner, we came 
to a number of Germans who had run into a cellar. By 
that time the German artillery was shelling the town so 
heavily that the Germans themselves were seeking 
shelter in the dugouts. As they went down, they called 
to us and asked if we would allow them to surrender; 
but, as you know, the marines took no prisoners, and 
the next thing we did was to give them a hand grenade, 
which finished the war for those Huns. 

After we had taken that town the question was up to 
us to organize it. By nine o'clock that night we had 
something like fifteen hundred men in the town. 

That evening the Germans began a counter-attack, 
and continued it from three o'clock in the morning 
until six o'clock in the afternoon. They came over on 
us in their famous mass formation, which had worked 
so well with the British and the French. It was there 
that the training which the marines had received, 
brought forth the praise from the French colonel. So 



IN THE WORLD WAR 181 

accurate, so careful was the fire of the marines, at that 
time, that the French colonel exclaimed that it was the 
first time in European warfare that men had ever sat 
down and sighted their rifles and shot do^vn men as if 
they were on a target range. 

The taking of Bouresches caused the fight of Bellcau 
Wood, which was a large clump of trees, and then 
came a wheat field, and then another clump of trees, 
and then another field filled with poppies and wheat. 
This series of woods it was necessary to go into, 
against an almost inpenetrable fortress. Belleau 
Wood had been in the hands of the Germans, and they 
had organized it ; they had filled it with machine guns, 
until almost every man in the place had one of those 
terrible machines of warfare. They had the treetops 
filled with German sharpshooters, so that when a man 
would crawl along on the ground, the sharpshooters in 
the trees would hit him. It was the sort of old In- 
dian fighting which the American soldiers naturally 
fell into. But with the American initiative, the Ameri- 
can grit and determination, against the organized Ger- 
man mass formation, we were able to take these woods. 

After two days of hand to hand fighting in Belleau 
Wood, the marines were unable to pass what was called 
Death Gap, about fifty feet deep and about thirty-five 
or forty feet across. The marines were withdra^vn 
immediately, and the artillery, which had arrived the 
night before, shelled the woods. One hundred guns 
operated on those woods, and the cannonading shook 
the ground like an earthquake; the bursting of the 
shells and the crashing of the trees, and the terrific 
lighting of the skies, as the shells burst over Belleau 
Wood, was a scene that defies description. But above 
it all you could hear the cries and shrieks of the Boche 
who was yelling and begging for mercy. 



182 BUTLER COLLEGE 

This artillery action lasted for almost three hours, 
and just at daylight, when the artillery fire ceased, the 
Germans started to attack, and the Americans came in. 
The marines swept the Germans entirely out of the 
woods. I was not in the fight itself, I was just on the 
right flank of the woods, as they came out, and we 
were able to turn our machine gun in such a position 
as to make it impossible for any more of them to 
come out of that section of the woods. They hunted 
another exit away beyond. 

After this series of actions, at the end of twelve days, 
the Marine Corps withdrew. At that time, out of eight 
thousand men, we had less than two thousand alive. 
We lost, during the entire war, only twenty-five pris- 
oners, for we saw it was either kill or be killed. We 
were pitted against thirty-five thousand Prussian 
Guards, in those actions. They were not only the crack 
troops of Germany, but of all Europe. Their specifica- 
tions were that every man should weigh two hundred 
pounds and stand not less than six feet tall. Their 
five divisions, which were against us, had been resting 
at the town of Noye, north of Soissons, for over a 
month. They had received refreshments, and had been 
filled up to full strength, and brought down on a train 
and debarked close to where we met them. So that they 
were absolutely fresh troops, and they came down the 
road with orders to take Paris at any cost ! 

Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry will go down 
through history and will probably be classed with the 
fight at Thermopylae, because of the far-reaching ef- 
fect that it had in the war. The action, itself, was 
really a local action, but it was the first smashing blow 
that had been struck by the Americans, and the fact 
that we had saved Paris, instantly brought new hope 



IN THE WORLD WAR 183 

and new energy to the entire Allied armies. From that 
time on the British and the French took fresh de- 
termination and swept on in great drives, which 
brought us, eventually, to victory, 

I would like to say that we owe a great deal to the 
womanhood of France. There has been very little said 
to you about what the French women did in the year 
during which we had declared war and were trying to 
get our men to the front. It was almost impossible for 
the French army to hold on until we could get our 
men up to the front line, and in condition to get into 
action. And it was only through the morale of the 
French women that it was really made possible that we 
could win the war. 

We owe a great debt of gratitude to the Red Cross, 
and particularly to the Red Cross nurses — the women 
who went over there and experienced all the hardships 
that they had to undergo as nurses. 

And about the Salvation Army — the girls who came 
right up to the trenches and served doughnuts — that 
is an absolute fact, my friends, and not newspaper 
propaganda, because I was there and saw it myself. 

You have, no doubt, wondered if, with it all, there 
might have been some humorous features connected 
with our service. There were some amusing things 
which occurred. They had some colored troops in a 
New York division, and they were sent up to the Toul 
sector. While they were in the trenches, waiting for 
attack, the officer, thinking that he would build up 
their morale, told them that there was a company of 
white men behind them, and he said, "Now, I don't 
want any of you black boys to get scared because you 
are going over the top, but when you get the signal, 
jump and go. There are five thousand white men im- 



184 BUTLER COLLEGE 

mediately behind you, and they will come in right after 
you, and will support you in this attack, ' ' One of the 
darkies turned to his friend and said ''George, what 
do you reckon the headlines in the New York papers 
will say tomorrow morning, when they read about us 
niggers going over the top?" "I don't know," re- 
plied his friend, "but I 'spect it is going to read 'five 
thousand white men tromped', because I'm going to 
the rear right now." 

A Hymn 

In Honor of the Part Played by Butler Men in the 

Great War 

By Mrs. Jessie Christian Broivn, A. B., '97 

I — the bitter years 

Now June comes 'round again — the golden sun 
Falls all too warmly on the waving grass : 
The air is heavy with the scent of flowers. 
Across the campus, freed from tedious hours, 
In cap and go^vn the grave collegians pass. 
Ah, Youth and June ! — the poets, every one, 
Have hjmined these themes since history was begun, 
And still will sing them till their race is run. 

A year ago, the sun as brightly gleamed. 
Perhaps — the rose her fragrance shed. 
And yet, our skies were overcast — it seemed 
As if a part of summer's bloom had fled. 
We did not heed the robins' cheery notes, 
But strained to hear the drum-beat from afar. 



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The old gay songs were stilled in all our throats, 
And on our lips was one grim phrase — the War! 
One aching thought was all we dwelt upon, 
' ' The boys ! the boys ! our lovely boys are gone ! ' ' 

How does one live through anguish? Bear the load 
That seems too heavy for the burdened mind? 
I know not — yet there is an end to every road. 
No matter how its weary course may wind. 
Those wise Greeks of the olden time would say, 
Bowing their heads with Stoic calm, ''Today 
You suffer. 'Tis the lot of humankind. 
Endure, endure. This, too, shall pass away." 

And so the bitter years dragged on. It seemed 
Sometimes as if the war would never cease. 
And that those silly, happy days of peace 
Were only something we had idly dreamed. 
Monotony, despair — when suddenly 
A thrill of hope ran through the tired old world, 
And flashing came the word across the sea, 
''Rejoice! rejoice! rejoice! for Belgium's free! 
France sings her Marseillaise exultantly! 
Behold, the Britons ride through Bagdad's gate! 
The Hohenzollern to the ground is hurled : 
No more he shouts his lusty hymn of Hate ! ' ' 

"Our boys?" — we questioned, wild with joy and pride. 
Back came the winged call across the tide, 
"Those glorious lads? Look in the dark Argonne, 
Look in the bloody nests of Belleau Wood. 
See where the haughty Prussian legions stood. 
The foul imperial eagle and his brood .... 



186 BUTLER COLLEGE 

It's always darkest just before the dawn, 
They say: and in the world's most tragic hour, 
When Prussia sneered in arrogance and power, 
Then, in the darkness of a whole world's pain, 
The Yanks came laughing through the mud and rain, 
And lo — the clouds of deep despair and doubt 
Were scattered, and the sun of Joy broke out ! ' ' 

II THE EETURN OF THE VICTORS 

Ring, ye bells, the night is gone, 
Peal your happy carillon. 
Ring, exultant bells of earth. 
Laugh and dance in easy mirth. 
Ye people — keep your carnival 
In lowly home, in stately hall. 
Proud ships, sailing through the foam. 
Bring our boys in triumph home ! 

Across the land we see them go — 
Sun-browned face, thoughtful eyes, 
(What has made them all so wise, 
Care-free boys we used to know?) 
Bring them safe, ye roads of steel. 
Even senseless iron must feel 
Sting of pleasure almost pain, 
That Youth returns to us again. 

Soldier jokes — "Oui, oui, Marie," 
''Beaucoup mud," and ''gay Paree"! 
Laughter, with a hint of tears, 
' ' Mother, see ! — ^my souvenirs. ' ' 
Tattered flag and empty gun. 
Tin hat, shining in the sun. 



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Gas-mask — staring bogey-face, 

(All its tubes and disks in place) 

Belts and ribbons, Croix de Guerre, 

Bits of shrapnel here and there. 

Hob-nailed boots and funny cap. 

Trim puttees and polished strap, — 

"Listen, dear. I hear the tap 

Of a crutch." — "Yes, poor old chap. 

Lost his leg at Vimy Ridge — 

Went through fire to save the bridge. ' ' 

Now I know why you are wise, 
Sun-browned lads with thoughtful eyes, 
Eyes of gray and eyes of blue — 
Grave young soldier-lads, you knew 
What a hell the world passed through. 
What it cost in blood and pain 
That Belgium might be free again. 
Price these paid to set us free. 
Free from basest treachery. 
Cruelty, deceit and lies : 
Death that drops from out the skies. 
Death that lurks beneath the sea. 
Free from terror, free from fears, 
Down the blessed future years. 

Ill MEMORIES 

The drums are stilled, the flags of war are furled. 
So, June comes back again, and o'er the grass 
In cap and gown the serious seniors pass — 
How does it seem, the little college world — 
Its peaceful round of duties, lessons taught. 
Its sweet companionships, its talk of class. 



188 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

Of budding love-affair 'twixt lad and lass, 

Its mild concerns and philosophic thought, — 

To those who bore the war, who marched and fought' 

I fancy, 'mid the joy of safe return. 
The kiss of greeting and the warm embrace. 
Their stubborn thoughts revisit many a place. 
And crowding pictures on their memories burn. 
And yet — the years that come will blur awhile 
The sharpness of those pictures : peaceful cares. 
The love of home and wife, the baby's smile. 
Will steal upon those memories unawares. 

THE TRENCHES 

But one will never quite forget the night 
He waited with his comrades in the dark 
Until the zero hour, his fingers cold and stark 
Upon his bayonet. — A gleaming light 
On the horizon's edge — the low command, 
The gallant scramble over No-Man 's-Land, 
His pal beside him — then a shrieking ball ; 
He looked around and saw his comrade fall. 
A smile, a farewell word — ''Good-bye, old top, 
The best of luck — you carry on — don't stop 
Until you reach — Berlin ! ' ' And that was alL 
Between him and his busy work, some day. 
That face will come in memory, and that gay 
Heart-breaking smile he'll see till memory's gone, 
And hear that voice, "Good luck — you carry on." 

THE BIEDMAISr 

Another will recall, as years go by. 

Those days he rode triumphant through the sky: 



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Looked far below him, saw the world outspread 
Like bits of children's toys — all green and red 
With funny little towns — while overhead 
The fleecy clouds were shot mth gleams of gold. 
He laughed in sheerest rapture to behold 
The wonder-bird beneath whose shining wing 
He rode. — Ah, death were such an easy thing 
If it could come when one is young and bold, 
Instead of waiting till a man grows old ! 

DEVASTATED FRANCE 

And in the memory of this other lad, 

Will linger, like an etching sharp and deep, 

A pitiful French village — little, steep, 

With ashes where the village homes had been — 

(Such harmless houses, too, when men were glad, 

And happy love and laughter entered in. 

Before the war came, and the world went mad). 

The village church was but a shattered shell. 

With twisted roof, and altar all awry. 

He saw no tears — the fount of tears was dry. 

But day by day, the people straggled back, 

With broken sabots, and a ragged pack 

For all their wealth — old miserable crones. 

With sunken eye-balls, little racks of bones 

That once were children — never sight of maid, 

Or stalwart youth, or any child that played 

As children should. He asked, dismayed, 

Of one old wistful creature, "Grandam, tell 

Me where the other people are. ' ' She raised 

Her eyes to his — he shrank from their despair. 

(In them he saw reflected France's pain.) 

"The dirty Boches came here when life was fair/' 



190 BUTLER COLLEGE 

She said. ''They took the maids away, but where, 
We know not. They will ne'er come home again . 
They say we '11 have once more Alsace-Lorraine. 
The Boche 's day is done. Well, God be praised ! ' ' 

THE SEA 

And there 's a sailor. How his thoughts will soar, 

(As he, immured amid the city's roar, 

Cons dreary figures) — where the sea-gull floats, 

And mariners sail out upon their boats — 

Those daring ships that carry precious freight. 

Defiant of the skulking foes that wait 

Beneath the water, out there in the blue : 

Those crazy ships, with many a puzzling hue 

Of gray and green and white, against the skies. 

Poor sailor ! He shall dream, with half-closed eyes. 

Of tossing white-caps, tumbling, madly-free, 

Of lonely vistas, only clouds and sea. 

His nostrils once again shall strive to know 

How rude, and cold, and sweet, the sea-winds blow. 

Perhaps a prayer will linger on his lips, 

''For those that go down to the sea in ships." 

THOSE WHO ^' NEVER GOT TO CAECASSONNE^' 

And these shall ponder, in the days to be. 
On fate's caprice, that kept them fretfully 
In camp and barrack — though the eager heart 
Yearned to be gone across that death-strewn sea 
To France. Expectantly, each did his part. 
Endured unwonted discipline, restraint 
That irked young shoulders, all without complaint. 
To them the day of peace brought no relief. 



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But disappointment, and a boyish grief 

That theirs had been the harder, quiet task 

To wait, and learn, and dream, and vainly ask. 

Yet as they journey do"\vn the passing years. 

Remembered faces, fun-alight, shall glow 

In happy fancy — ringing in their ears 

Shall echo boyish accents. Long ago, 

A dying Scotsman voiced a hopeful plea 

That man and man, the whole world o 'er, might be 

For a' that, brothers. So these boys shall grow 

In power and love, and make reality 

The poet-prophet's dream of true democracy. 

IV THE AGELESS ONES 

And so the years shall go, and each returning June 
Shall bring the grave young Seniors in the cap and 

gown. 
Returning Autumn, with her leaves of gold and brown. 
Shall bring new children, all Avith jest and merry tune, 
To academic halls. We shall, alas ! grow old, 
And all these soldier lads, as seasons shall unfold. 
Shall note how this time is passing, and shall say, each 

man, 
^'Eheu, fugaces, Postume, labuntur anni" 
Just as gay old Horace did, in ages sped. 

But in these halls shall linger, ever strong and young, 
A timeless Youth, about whose shining head is hung 
An aureole of glory. We go out at night. 
And see, far sparkling, up through all the heavenly 

space. 
Those glistening stars that never fade, whose won- 
drous light 



192 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Comes radiant to the aging earth. And so the bright 
Remembrance of those gallant lads whom we call dead 
Shall through the years bring clear each glowing 

youthful face. 
No more shall young Joe Gordon, on the chapel wall, 
Against his starry banner, hang aloof and lone. 
Around him group his comrades. And I think at night, 
When all is dark and silent here, young Joe will call, 
''Where are you, boys? It's roll-call" — and they'll 

answer, every one, 
''I'm here! Here's Bruce and Tuck and Charlie, Mer- 
cer, Toon, 
Here's Michael, Elliott, Leukhardt — here are Bob, 

MacCrae, 
And Marsh and Marvin ! ' ' — Then I think the kind old 

moon 
Will look in through the chapel window, and will say, 
"Ye are a worthy part of that vast company. 
Ye Butler Boys. Behold, it wings from sea to sea ! 
Your comrades call to you from trampled Flanders 

plain. 
From Servian mountains, fields of ripe Roumanian 

grain, 
From France and Russia, from Italian snows — for ye 
Are those who gave your All, to set the nations free!" 

Peesident Howe: There are two presentations to 
be made to the college at this time, one by the Rev. 
Carey Cleo Dobson, of the class of '19, and the other 
by Lieutenant Henry Michener Jameson, of the class 
of '19. 

Me. Dobson: President Howe, Returned Soldiers 



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and Sailors, Fellow Students, and Friends of Butler 
College: You have been accustomed to hear people 
from this platform say that it was a pleasure to be 
here. Perhaps you have thought some of them made 
the remark merely as a matter of formality. But T 
want to assure you that it is a great pleasure for me 
to be here ; that it is not merely a formality ; and that 
there are many reasons for my pleasure on this oc- 
casion. One of those reasons is the purpose for which 
I am here. 

I have no stories of the battlefield to tell you. Some 
eighteen months ago it was my privilege representing 
the organization here in the college known as the Sand- 
wich Club, to present in its name to the college a large 
service flag upon which were one hundred and sixteen 
blue stars and four red triangles. That flag was as- 
signed a place on the wall of the chapel and has been 
there almost continuously since. 

At the time of the presentation of that flag the boys 
were leaving home and college and going away, we 
knew not where. But, today, it is an occasion when 
the boys have returned, some of them — while others 
are on the way, and others are making preparations to 
leave the camps. 

At that time, we were looking to victory through the 
eyes of faith. But today, we are trying to look to vic- 
tory through the eyes of reality. On that occasion, it 
was the pleasure of the Sandwich Club to present that 
flag with its blue stars and red triangles, representing 
one hundred and sixteen living men — men who had 
gone forth to answer their country's call; but today, it 
is the pleasure of that club through me to present to 
Butler College another service flag, one not repre- 
senting one hundred and sixteen men, but seven hun- 



194 BUTLER COLLEGE 

dred and ten men, twelve of whom gave their lives for 
their country, the world, and for humanity. 

Lieutenant Jameson ; Mr. President, and Friends : 
It seems only yesterday since we were all together. 
The past assumes the aspect of a picture; the trivial 
incidents are forgotten ; the great moments of our lives 
are romanticized. One of the favorite playgrounds of 
our memory is our college. This is proven by the fact 
that we are here today. It is a great pleasure to meet 
those with whom we had experience during the days 
before the war. There isn't one of us who was in the 
service, who has not looked forward to the great day 
when we should all gather together here, who has not 
regarded old friends as the best, and who, no matter 
how far aw^ay, was not anxious for some news from the 
college. 

There isn 't one of us who didn 't make his peace with 
the Almighty on the day he enlisted, and commend his 
soul to God in the firm belief that it was God's purpose 
to use us in the protection of our country. After that 
we were not responsible except to do as we were 
bidden. 

Our paths led in various directions, and in some 
cases, where there was no hope or joy, and where the 
only compensation was the satisfaction gained from 
work well done. In other cases men's souls were burned 
white by fire, and a few faced the Supreme Test. 

It was the privilege of all of us to resign ourselves 
to God. It was the privilege of a few to be selected 
for extreme danger. It was the privilege of some 
to pay the supreme price for ideals. 

The class of 1919 is honored with the memory of a 
boy who was once a member of our class, a boy who 



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was killed in action "over there." I refer to Lieuten- 
ant Hilton U. Brown who fell in the Argonne. 

Not often is one so near to us taken away at the 
supreme moment of his life. Had he lived through the 
fight, he would have been regarded as one of those men 
of sterling qualities, tested and proven by the rigors 
of war. As it is, we regarded him as a human approach 
to perfection, because he attained to the point of what 
would have been the aspiration of each of us, had occa- 
sion demanded. 

War has revised our views on the meaning of life. 
Life is no longer to be considered in terms of years, 
but in terms of accomplishment. 

Here was one who lived so true to his ideals that he 
was mlling to die for them. As Lieutenant Brown 
expressed himself, ''I have often thought what a God- 
send this war has been to our country. We will have 
been the gainer in the end, if it costs us a million m.en ; 
and here is one who is mlling to be of those, if the Ger- 
mans are completely defeated and subdued, and a last- 
ing peace is assured ! ' ' 

It is one thing to be a speaker, but it is a greater 
thing to say these things, knomng well what they 
might cost, and, having said them, to live up to them. 

We, who are here today, must bear in mind that our 
absent classmate looked forward to this day as much 
as any of us. Whether on the drill field, or at the 
front, in the hospital, or in a far-advanced position 
with the great forward moving army, in the Argonne, 
he dreamed of home. He lived and died in the belief 
that this homeland, this state, and this college, would 
be richer and stronger and finer because of his striv- 
ing. 

There is an historical marching song that has been 



196 BUTLER COLLEGE 

used in the American army for more than one genera- 
tion which lightens the way of every soldier, ''His 
Soul Goes Marching On." Sung originally of old 
John Brown, it may be sung again of Hilton Brown. 

If there is anything in the belief of the hereafter, and 
the testimony of humanity through the ages has been 
growing toward that belief, as a flower grows toward 
the light, then there is no reason to believe that Hil- 
ton is not right here with us today, hoping and pray- 
ing that we will see the same light he saw and ennoble 
our lives by the example that he has set, hoping that 
we will take what he has given for the greatest good, 
hoping that we will ''carry on," in the same spirit of 
devotion in which he carried on, thereby reaping the 
greatest benefit possible from the seed that was sown 
in the Argonne. 

In order that we may not forget readily that such 
nobility once lived among us, and that it was our pleas- 
ure and honor to walk with him, and that we may all 
live in the presence and spirit of our old classmate, we, 
the class of 1919, present to Butler College this por- 
trait of Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown. 

Hilton Brown, we salute you and resolve by word 
.and deed to carry forward the ideals for which you 
laid down your life. 

President Howe: Members of the class of '19, Mr. 
Dobson and Lieutenant Jameson: The college presi- 
dent has some pretty hard things to do, sometimes, 
because college presidents have, like all other human 
beings, human feelings. I have been the president of 
Butler College for twelve years, and you have set for 
me now the hardest task I have ever had put before 
me, to say a word at this time. Words are such hollow, 



IN THE WORLD WAR 197 

mocking things now and then. They can not express 
what lies down in the bottom of one's soul. 

First of all, the college has some things that are 
simply beyond price, and this service flag is going to 
go do\\'Ti as a treasure whose value can not be esti- 
mated. 

Six hundred and ninety-three men in the service of 
various sorts ! Think what that means in the aggregate 
of anxiety, of heartaches, of joy of achievement ! Sev- 
enteen in the noble service of the Y. M. C. A. ! And 
those other stars! Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown, Jr., 
Lieutenant Kenneth V. Elliott, Lieutenant John 
Charles Good, Lieutenant Robert E. Kennington, Ser- 
geant Henry R. Leukhardt, Private Wilson Russell 
Mercer, Corporal Guy Griffith Michael, Sergeant 
Marsh W. Nottingham, Private Marvin Francis Race, 
Lieutenant Bruce Pettibone Robison, Lieutenant Mac- 
Crae Stephenson, Apprentice-Seaman Henry Clar- 
ence Toon. Five killed in action ; seven die in service ! 
Friends, there isn't anything that can be said about 
that. It speaks for itself. That is one of the things 
in our possession of which we may well be proud. 

Now, this portrait. The man who painted this said 
to me a little while ago as we came down the street 
together, "I had known this boy all his life, and it was 
a labor of love — the painting of this portrait." He 
added, ''We have all loved him." 

Well, I should like to know who didn 't love him ! I, 
too, have known him all his life, and he seemed 
like one of my own. We were all so proud of him! 
That boy was typical of all that is good and noble and 
true in American life; of all that makes the Declara- 
tion of Independence worth while. That was what the 
war of '61 to '65 was fought for — to produce such as 



198 BUTLER COLLEGE 

this. But what else would you expect him to be ? From 
his early childhood he was in a home where love and 
respect for father and mother, where devotion to coun- 
try and its service, where reverence for God and Jesus 
Christ, were fundamental things. He typified the best 
of Christian civilization. I don't suppose he was think- 
ing about being a hero. He just was one. Think of 
what he did. Twenty-one days, sleeping in those dug- 
outs, in that shell-pitted field; running out and back 
again to rest ; and hearing that his men were without 
food, going back to bring food to them, to succor those 
hungry men — and giving up his life as he did it. Is 
it any wonder that he achieved the Croix de Guerre, 
and that the Distinguished Service Cross is to be his? 
To whom should they go, if not to such as he ? 

My friends, his portrait is worthy to be hung beside 
the other lad for whom also we shed our tears this 
afternoon. But we are not shedding tears for Hilton ; 
the tears we shed are for our selfish selves. His work 
is done — well and nobly done. His fame is secure. We 
weep, of course, but it is because of the loss we have 
sustained. 

How many of us are going to have the courage to go 
on and to do our duty, day by day, as we face the tasks 
that are before us in the spirit in which he did his 
duty, so that when the time comes, whether it be by 
shot and shell, or lingering sickness, we may say ''It 
is well with us, for we have done a man 's part ? ' ' 

The man who painted this portrait has said one of 
the finest things I have heard said, the best possible 
thing that could be said: 

So you are dead in far Argonne, and the lovely land 
of war-swept France you fought to save holds you at 
last in close embrace. 



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We who knew you, saw you grow from childhood into 
perfect youth, straight, clean, and tall, looking life in the 
face with clear, untroubled eyes and joyous smile — 
challenging unafraid the brooding shadows that ever 
hem us round about — we might have known or guessed 
the hero spirit waiting for its call. 

Boundless our pride to know such youth has walked 
among us. While waters ru.n, clouds blow, and earth 
is green, need we have fear for our dear motherland 
that breeds such men? 

Dead in Argonne? Nay— but in the glorious throng 
innumerable of heroic souls joyously triumphant, radiant 
new shriven, from the fields of sacrifice — flower of our 
youth sweeping past the great archangel — he the dragon 
slayer of the flaming sword saluting greets them : 
Hail, brothers mine ! for ye have slain your dragon. 
Welcome to your glorious rest ! Lo, even as Christ died 
for men, so have ye died for Christ. 



SOLDIEES' AND SaILOES ' DaY DiNNER 
THE CLAYPOOL HOTEL, SEVEN-THIRTY o'CLOCK 

President Howe, as toastmaster, introduced the 
speakers of the evening, who in part responded as fol- 
lows: 

President Butler, A. B. '68: Butler College has 
been a great part of my life. I grew up with it. As 
a student I passed many years within its walls ; as pro- 
fessor I served a long, long term, for I taught Latin in 
the college, beginning in 1871, until 1907. During part 
of that time I served, also, as its president. Now, I 
want to say that most of you here are not personally 
known to me. The generation of my day have found 
their later interests, as you all in time will find yours, 
outside the reach of our influence here. They rarely 



200 BUTLER COLLEGE 

come back. A few I see, year by year, but most of them 
do not come, so most of you in these days are strangers 
to me. But I do want to say that the inspiration in 
later life that I get out of my college days, is that that 
came to me in the class room. I remember the faces of 
those who sat in the seats before me years and years 
ago, whose names, perhaps, in these later years, I have 
forgotten. I remember the interest I felt in my stud- 
ents then. Those memories of the old days are very 
sweet to me now. I loved some of the students I have 
known, even as I have loved those of my o^vn blood. 

I have the honor, and I esteem it a very great honor 
I assure you, of addressing the soldier-students of 
Butler College — the soldier-students in the Great War. 
"We have been introduced to each other. I have heard 
all of your names, and President Howe has told you 
my name. But you don 't know me, except on his word 
— and you know what he is ! 

What do I think of the soldier-students of Butler 
College today? You remember, I am an old soldier, 
myself, and I could talk a long time, just about my- 
self, but I will dismiss that. I have a more interesting 
subject. 

I suppose that the proper thing for me to do, on this 
occasion, is to give you some advice, drawn from my 
own experience. I shall have to do it briefly. What 
did I derive, — what quality of mind, what purpose of 
soul, what fear of the Eternal God did I derive from 
my service in the army ? Believe me, I derived much. 
Oh, I know there are dangers in camp life ; there are 
dangers in the reckless life of the soldier. And is it not 
peculiarly true of boys about the age of eighteen or 
twenty or twenty-two years, that they are susceptible 



IN THE WORLD WAR 201 

to the influence of dangerous surroundings? You 
know how true that is. But with all, I think a man 
grounded in right purposes, reared in the midst of a 
favorable environment, is bound to receive immense 
good from service in the army. It is commonplace to 
say that we are benefited physically. It is not so com- 
mon to believe that we are benefited morally and intel- 
lectually. But I believe it is true — under right gui- 
dance — true with the best of the men. 

I didn't do much in the war, of course. I went into 
the service before I was fully eighteen years of age, 
and I served three years as an enlisted man. I got 
back home, and I wasn 't met with a brass band, either 
— I got back home before I was twenty-one years of 
age, after three years' service. When I went into the 
army, I went in among strangers. I had tried to enlist 
the previous summer, but had been rejected by the mus- 
tering officer in Indianapolis. But I was bound to 
make it, anyhow, and I heard of a regiment down in 
Kentucky, that had suffered severely from an epi- 
demic, and had lost many of its men, and wanted 
recruits. I remember that I got up early one winter 
morning, at four o'clock, and that my mother was up 
and gave me breakfast. I don't believe any of the rest 
of the family got up. I ate my solitary breakfast — but 
there are some things that I can not tell you about, 
young men! Well, I walked four miles to the Union 
Station and got on the train and went down into Ken- 
tucky, before I was eighteen years old. I had never 
been away from home before, and I went up to that 
camp and enlisted. I was put into a company of men 
the names of whom were absolutely unknown to me, 
and not one of them had ever known anything of me. 
But I was a little fellow, and perhaps that explains 



202 BUTLER COLLEGE 

why I made good with them. They all wanted to take 
care of me, I had that kind of a time all the way 
through the service. Well, I came back at the end of 
my term, and started in again at the college. 

Now, boys, I got this out of the life that I had led: 
this mingling with all kinds of people, from all parts 
of the country — for, later, I was in the service that 
drew its recruits from every loyal State in the Union — 
and making friends from far and wide, gave me an 
acquaintance with human nature. Then, too, I got vis- 
ions out of the war. At times, when, in my later years, 
I have been put to sore stress, I have listened for the 
bugle call that summoned us to duty, and I have never 
failed to hear it and it never failed to rouse me to 
action. There is this thing about it all : I believe that 
in war a man's faith in the Power not ourselves is de- 
veloped, is strengthened, to meet whatever fate life 
brings. 

Now, among you young men there are differences in 
terms and kinds of services, I understand. Some of 
you have been retained at home and have not been suc- 
cessful in being sent abroad. I know that you regret 
that, as for your sakes, I do. Other of you young men 
have gone beyond the seas and have seen fiery work at 
Chateau Thierry and Saint Mihiel and other places 
that we have heard all about here at home. I congratu- 
late you young men who have returned, and with you I 
mourn those who have returned not. Last fall I called 
to see some friends of mine — a family from which three 
boys had gone to the war. We talked about that, and 
I remember the quiet optimism of the mother. She 
said, ^ ' Oh, they will come back ! They will come back ! 
We shall all be together again. ' ' Ah, me ! What did 
I say? What I said I deeply regretted after I left 



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there for one of those boys did not come back. I said, 
''If they don't come back, they mil have died glori- 
ously, and that were a great reward." 

Oh, God of infinite pity, oh, God of infinite love, 
bless the souls that have been offered up in sacrifice 
upon the altar of their country ; and bless with tender 
love the hearts that mourn tonight for those gone, 
never to return. Amen. 

Judge Ira W. Christian, '80 : I come to you tonight 
with a heart full of feeling, mth a mind stirred with 
many memories. Let me say to you that the meeting 
this afternoon in the old College Chapel was a great 
inspiration. I come to you to speak on this subject, 
"The War's Recompense." 

Whence came our wonderful army no one can tell. 
It was not the product of a single race, but of many 
races and every stratum of society sent its sons. 
Prowess is the gift of the soul, and therefore a posses- 
sion of every race. The sons of the Mayflower and 
the immigrant of yesterday fought side by side. The 
lofty and the lowly, the college boy and the boy from 
the slums, were striving together for the destruction 
of the forces of tyranny. They were sharing the pup 
tent, the mess hall and the dugout. They were march- 
ing, fighting, toiling, hungering, together; accepting 
the rain, the snow, the sticky mud and the deadly 
trench with the same cheerful indifference. It was an 
army that could not be discouraged or beaten; its in- 
domitable spirit was unconquerable. All were anxious 
to go overseas. That was the goal of their ambition. It 
was a mixing and mingling that was an education for 
brotherhood and it brought out the best that was in 
those who thus shared the hardships, danger and death. 



204 BUTLER COLLEGE 

"Were there aliens in the ranks? Yes, thousands of 
them, loyal to the colors for which they fought. As an 
illustration of the spirit shoA\m by the aliens in our 
land I mention but one example which is one among 
many. The draft had in one city called 1,500 aliens to 
the colors and when they were told by the officers that 
the government had no legal right to hold them, — that 
the doors of life and freedom were open to them, less 
than 200 availed themselves of the privilege of leaving 
the army; more than 1,300 remained to fight for the 
flag to which they swore fealty in the face of death. 

Listen to an extract from a letter written by a Croa- 
tian boy to his brothers : "I am young and life seems 
very attractive. I love my home and the temptation to 
go home is very great, but none of my fathers ever had 
a chance to fight for democracy — ^I am going to take 
that chance." 

* * * It was a serious and solemn occasion when 
the last camp was reached, when the tents in the com- 
pany street were down, when belongings were packed 
and the boys and their loved ones, who had come to bid 
them good-bye, were gathered around the campfire. 
All were brave, even the wives and mothers shed no 
tears; there were some songs and some jokes, but there 
was seriousness, an earnestness of purpose shown by 
all. When the word came that the train is on the sid- 
ing and that the boys are to entrain at midnight, a 
thrill and uplift was felt by all — even anxiety could not 
quench that feeling. 

Going on the transport at Hoboken, doubtless, was 
more impressive to the new recruit than even entrain- 
ing for the sea-board ; there were none here to bid him 
good-bye and Godspeed; he was going for the first 
time on the ocean where submarines lurked and storms 



IN THE WORLD WAR 205 

raged, but there was no flinching; he went on board 
singing, ''We won't come home till its over, over 
there." Out on the ocean the soldier, for the first time 
in his life, touched hands with the infinite. The blue 
sky had been his friend from boyhood and the dawn 
had thrilled him with joy; but the ocean had been to 
him an irregular, dim, blue picture on a map in his old 
school geography — but when he met it, he found it a 
mighty force, vast, overwhelming, mysterious. In the 
war days it had become a mighty loom, ships of peace 
and war were the flying shuttles going back and forth 
across the Atlantic, weaving the story. It was a war 
unsought by us, but a war that met us at the seaport 
towns, at the harbor's head and in the offing; met us 
at the sea gates and on the open ocean. And thus our 
ships sailed away loaded with fighting men. 

That was a great day in the history of the world 
when General Pershing, in the city of Paris, laid a sim- 
ple wreath on a hero's tomb and said, "Lafayette, we 
are here." 

Belgium, France, England and Italy were well-nigh 
exhausted and were in sore need of our help. It seems 
to me that it was left for America to write that final 
imporishable page of history. It was splendidly 
written, simply and without ostentation, and yet so 
unselfishly and mth such fine spirit that even the 
enemy was compelled to admire. 

When our soldiers stood on the far-flung battle front 
there was no disguising their fell purpose, they came 
to conquer and not to be conquered ; they came to drive 
the invader out of France and Belgium, and when the 
battle was on the enemy recognized the awful fact that 
they had at last an antagonist that was more than 
master. They were impetuous and determined; their 



206 BUTLER COLLEGE 

spirit is shown by the words of the doughboy up in the 
Argonne Wood, in the thick of the fight, when death 
was all about him and hell breaking loose overhead, 
who, when his unit was ordered to fall back, shouted, 
' ' That isn 't what we came over here for ! ' ' 

For such an army no heroic bugle shall ever sound 
retreat. Belleau "Wood, Chateau Thierry, and the for- 
est of Argonne tell the story more eloquently than any 
words of mine. 

The American Expeditionary Forces, combined with 
the United States Navy, made it possible for the 
French, English, Belgians and Italians to force the 
Germans to capitulate in November, 1918. The armis- 
tice followed close upon the completion by the United 
States Navy of its mine barrier thrown across the 
North Sea from Scotland to Norway, a distance of two 
hundred and thirty miles. Our ships began sowing the 
sea with mines in June, 1918, and by September had 
planted and anchored 70,117 sea bombs, making it 
next to impossible for a German submarine to break 
through. 

It took the unterrified American Army to finish the 
job. Without the Americans that grand, aggregated 
World War victory could not have been achieved. What 
we like about the victory best of all is that our boys 
are bringing home with them something more than 
the laurels won in battle, something more than the 
aroma of heroic deeds. They are bringing home with 
them lessons of faith and hope, lessons of love and 
courage — memories of dead comrades, loved and lost. 
Shall not these things be and abide with us as a pre- 
cious inheritance? Shall not these lessons be handed 
doAvn to our children and our children's children*? 
Shall not the spirit of those brave, young lives inspire 



IN THE WORLD WAR 207 

us to strive harder and more manfully for the better 
things? Shall not their example cause the youth of 
our land to go forward with greater zeal and quickened 
steps toward the mark of life's high calling! For did 
they not fight for life's eternal verities'? These are 
some of the things our boys are bringing home and 
with these things a larger vision of life and its 
responsibilities. 

Battlefields are our monuments, and dot, like im- 
perishable periods, the pages of history. They are 
the grim and mighty milestones that register on life's 
road the high tide of heroic endeavor. The nations of 
the past climbed up a ladder of swords, and today, no 
less strange but more terrible, they are defending their 
holdings with the same weapon. It takes life and 
valor to sanctify. Battlefields become hallowed 
ground only when men die that others may have life 
and have it more abundantly. At first it is hard to 
reconcile ourselves to the vastness of the fact that our 
soldier sons are not all coming back. Yes, it's hard 
to realize that awful thing Ave call death and when we 
think how they crossed the sea, were landed at an un- 
familiar port, transported hundreds of miles across 
country in freight cars and when unloaded, hurried 
into a sector where shell and shrapnel fell in torrents 
and where they were the targets for the Hun's ter- 
rific gun fire, and fell like grain before the sickle — 
we agree Avith Hamilton in his observation made 
after a visit to the battle regions that nothing 
can ever be more impressive — not even gathering the 
bodies into one vast American cemetery with markers 
of stone — than are the groups of mounds with white 
crosses at the head and each man's name and identifi- 
cation tag, and often his gun and helmet to mark his 
resting-place. 



208 BUTLER COLLEGE 

As we think on these things the mystery of life and 
death are brought to our minds and we realize as never 
before how ennobling to man's soul was the courage 
that faced out bravely to such a fate. He who met the 
foe and gave his life in this great struggle not only saw 
life at its high tide, but has also contributed to his ut- 
termost for the good of the world. 

Everyone whose son rests over there is glad to have 
borne a son who has rendered such a splendid account 
of himself at such an hour. You do not ask God to 
bring him back to you, but rather you ask God to make 
you worthy of such a son and to consecrate your life to 
the unfinished task he so nobly began. 

The war is over and those who fell, are they not at 
peace? Are they not in possession of eternal life? 
Are they not at home with the immortals? Tomorrow 
will come and with it a new song upon its lips. A new 
day will dawn and will it not be better and richer for 
the achievements of yesterday? Is not all life one 
mighty generous tide sweeping ever onward towards 
the eternal gates of the Holy City? Do not the long- 
ings of the human soul echo the longings of the human 
heart in its reaching out for the better things? Beauty 
is ever young, it can not grow old, it can not die. 
The good, the brave, and the true are always beautiful. 
These young lives have not gone out, they have gone 
on. They are with us here tonight and should the roll 
be called, I'm sure they would answer to their names. 

To the Butler soldier boys who are present and to 
those who fell on the far-flung battle front over there, 
the words of Beranger, the French poet of the Revolu- 
tionary period, seem most fitting : "God give you, my 
children, a glorious death." Permit me to add to the 
thought therein expressed the further thought, may 



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God give to you, who were so fortunate as to survive, 
a glorious life. By so doing you will not only honor 
yourselves, but your dead comrades whose guardians 
you have become for all time ; and at the same time you 
will honor those who bore you and gave you as a price- 
less offering to the high and holy cause of freedom. 



From a letter by Clair McTurnan, '11, written in 
November, 1919. 

It is difficult for a man to find words for feelings 
and impressions that are at the very tips of conscious- 
ness in his finer sensibilities. This I know and can 
say : While all service men were awakened by a sense 
of duty to the Flag and the ideals and principles by 
it represented, they took a special delight in the 
thought that they were serving and representing 
and in part repaying their friends, their instructors 
and advisors and the institutions of which they had 
once been a part and to whom and to which would come 
a certain degree of honor and credit if the service 
were meritorious; and to whom and to which would 
come a shame and humiliation if the service failed to 
meet in character the expectations and hopes of those 
who were entitled to and did indulge in personal ex- 
pectations and hopes. Thereby hung the personal ele- 
ment in service, and it touched and inspired men as 
generalities and abstractions could not. The men who 
waged battle for mankind as it was typified by their 
mothers and sisters, and the men who waged battle for 
preservation of institutions and the traditions of insti- 
tutions as typified by those with which they were most 
familiar, felt themselves to be the particular servants 
of those mothers and sisters and institutions. 



210 BUTLER COLLEGE 

The greatest encouragement and inspiration for ser- 
vice lies in the support and confidence of one's friends, 
and the greatest compensation for service lies in the 
approval and appreciation extended by friends. 
Desire for approval may be a weakness of human 
nature. And when Butler College planned and held 
the reunion of service men last June and paid tribute; 
by program and presence, to the service men, there 
was rendered and paid the highest form of compensa- 
tion for service, a form that stimulates and perpetuates 
the desire to carry on in the service of citizenship. And 
because I can say what an inspiration the spirit of the 
program was to one who had rendered no particular 
service, I feel that I can understand what a wonderful 
source of compensation it was to those who had ren- 
dered actual service, fired by a kindred inspiration. 
And I know, too, that the consideration, approbation 
and interest of the college are very stimulating and 
very precious to the service men. They are tributes 
to the loyalty and service that make soldiering well 
worth the cost. I don't know whether you can under- 
stand how much these things mean to the service men, 
but I know enough of the men who went ' ' over the top ' ' 
to believe that their greatest desire was to render the 
service which those who were interested would desire, 
and that the crowning glory of such service was to 
receive from the hands of their own friends recogni- 
tion of their faithful effort. 



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Our Dead 

There must he Wisdom in Great Death 

— Tennyson 

Lieutenant Carl Christian Amelung 
Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown, Jr. 
Private Conwell Burnside Carson 
Lieutenant Kenneth Victor Elliott 
Corporal Dean Weston Fuij^er 
Lieutenant John Charles Good 
Lieutenant Robert Edward Kennington 
Sergeant Henry Reinhold Leukhardt 
Private Wilson Russell Mercer 
Corporal Guy Griffith Michael 
Sergeant Marsh Whitney Nottingham 
Captain Victor Hugo Nysewander 
Private Marvin Francis Race 
Lieutenant Bruce Pettibone Robison 
Lieutenant MacCrea Stephenson 
Apprentice-Seaman Henry Clarence Toon 



CHAPTER IV 
Our Dead 

LiEUTEi^AisrT Carl Christian Amelung, '18, died on 
July 31, 1920, at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the 
age of twenty-five years. He was buried in Cave Hill 
Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. 

Carl Amelung was a soldier before April, 1917. He 
was made of fighting material — persistency of pur- 
pose, endurance when it cost to endure, forgetfulness 
of self. He was gentle and courteous and kindly; he 
was manly, brave and good; he was appreciative of 
fine things in literature and in life. Those who knew 
him best loved him most. 

His military record, taken from his diary, was as 
follows: "Attended the Second Officers' Training 
Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison which opened 
August 27, 1917. On December 15, reported to the 
Thirty-eighth Infantr}^, Third division, at Camp 
Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina and was assigned to 
Company D for duty; trained in the States mth that 
Company until March, 1918, when ordered overseas. 
Arrived in Scotland April 3, 1918. A few weeks later 
reached the training area at Arc-en-Barrois (Haute 
Marne). Detailed to attend the Second Corps School 
at Chatillon-sur-Seine (Cote d'Or). Ordered to the 
front and went into the Loire east of Chateau Thierry. 
Remained here until the first of July when the divi- 
sional sector was moved on a few kilometers to the east. 
At midnight of July 14, company in support near 
Crezancy helped to stop the German rush. After hold- 
ing the enemy for three days the counter attack started. 
At this time was gassed and evacuated to Base Hos- 

212 



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pital Number 30. After ten days here sent to Con- 
valescent Camp at Allery. Discharged and sent to 
Saint Aignan to first replacement depot. From here, 
as soon as able, sent back to the front, where fought 
until the armistice," 

In July, 1919, Lieutenant Amelung returned to the 
United States. After a fifteen days' furlough spent 
with his parents and one day with friends in Irvington, 
he was sent to Base Hospital Number 21 at Denver, 
Colorado. On May 1, 1920, at his own request, he was 
discharged to fight at home his last battle. Succumb- 
ing to the dread disease brought on by the fatal gas, 
he was soldier to the end, true to his pledged word nor 
failing "that rendezvous." 

Lieutenant Hilton IT. Brown, Jk., '19, of the Sev- 
enth Field Artillery, First division, fell in action in 
the Argonne forest on November 3, 1918, at the age of 
twenty-four years. He was buried in the American 
Sedan cemetery near Beaumont, whence afterwards 
reburied in the Romagiic cemetery. 

Hilton U. Brown, Jr., enlisted in June, 1916, at Indi- 
anapolis, in Battery A, First Indiana Field Artillery, 
and served on the Mexican border in the follo\ving fall 
and winter. In Ma}', 1917, he was transferred to the 
First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison where in August he was commissioned second 
lieutenant in artillery and designated for immediate 
service overseas. He sailed from New York Septem- 
ber 7, by way of Halifax for Liverpool. Arriving 
there September 22, he proceeded to Southampton and 
then to Le Havre. After three days in a rest camp he 
was sent by way of Paris to the Saumur Artillery 
School. Completing his work here he was assigned to 



214 BUTLER COLLEGE 

the Seventh Field Artillery (United States Army), 
First division, then in the Toul sector on the Lorraine 
front, and was with this division on its unconquerable 
career. On May 12, in the Cantigny campaign, he was 
wounded and evacuated for three months to hospitals 
Number 1 and Number 34. He returned to his former 
unit of the First division in time for the Saint Mihiel 
drive, went through the Meuse-Argonne engagements 
until he fell at Nouart, near Stenay, on November 3, 
''dying," so wrote his brother, ''the way all soldiers 
would like to die — quickly, while doing his duty on the 
far-advanced battlefield of a great drive. ' ' The Croix 
de Guerre was awarded him, with the following cita- 
tion: 

"Second Lieutenant Hilton U. Brown (Deceased), 
Seventh Field Artillery. Displayed unusual courage 
and devotion to duty during the Argonne-Meuse offen- 
sive, October 4th to November 3d, 1918, both as battery 
officer and liaison officer with the attacking infantry. 
His utter disregard for personal danger was an inspira- 
tion to his men and contributed to the effectiveness of 
his detail in maintaining this important communication, 
until killed while laying his guns during heavy shell fire 
on November 3, 1918." 

Hilton Brown belonged to Butler College by right of 
inheritance. She followed him with affectionate in- 
terest from happy childhood into boyhood, on into 
young manhood. She saw the tall athletic youth, the 
bright cheeks, the merry twinkle of eye; and she saw 
even the promise of the heroism that was to be. 

Lieutenant Brown 's soldiership was of a high order. 
He loved his men. He was their servant as well as 
their leader; at all times and in all places they came 
first in his thoughts, and until they were made as 




LIEUTENANT CARL CHRIS- 
TIAN AMELUNG 
July 31, 1920 



LIEUTENANT HILTON U. 

BROWN, JR. 

November 3, 1918 





PRIVATE CONWELL BURN- 
SIDE CARSON 
October 5, 1918 



LIEUTENANT KENNETH 

VICTOR ELLIOTT 

August 31, 1918 



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comfortable as circumstances would allow there was 
never thought of self. He had a sense of protective- 
ness for one younger or for one less equal to endur- 
ance. He was honest in the finer way of absolute sin- 
cerity of honor. His courage rose very high His 
action won for him, posthumously, the Croix de Guerre, 
but it won for the college a still greater thing — a con- 
crete expression of Americanism in finest form: hu- 
morous, resolute, courageous, unselfish, willing to lay 
down his life if thereby the agonies of war might be 
eliminated from the world, ''We will have been the 
gainers in the end, if it costs us a million men. And 
here is one who is willing to be of those if the Germans 
are completely subdued and a lasting peace is as- 
sured." So wrote he. Greater love hath no man than 
this! 

Hilton 's nature had an artistic side. He was fond of 
literature, instinctively he knew real literature. He 
loved poetry and wrote verse that gave great promise. 
His letters were often illustrated and his dugouts on 
the battle front bore evidence of his humor as a car- 
toonist. His friends had planned for him a journalistic 
career, following in his father's honored footsteps. 
They had pictured for him, as doubtless he had pic- 
tured for himself, a life of usefulness and power in his 
native and loved Irvington, in which Butler College 
would not be wanting. 

"His horoscope had seemed so plainly drawn — 
School triumphs, earned apace in work and play ; 

Friendships at will; then love's delightful dawn 
And mellowing day. 



216 BUTLER COLLEGE 

"Home fostering hope; some service to the State; 
Benignant age ; then the long tryst to keep, 

Where, in the yew-tree shadow congregate. 
His fathers sleep. 

''Was this the one thing needful to distil 
From life's alembic, through this holier fate, 

The man's essential soul, the hero will? 
We ask; and wait." 

Private Conwekl BuENsmE Caeson, '15, died of 
pneumonia at the Red Cross Hospital, Camp Sherman, 
Ohio, on October 5, 1918, at the age of twenty-six years, 
and was buried near his native town of Boggstown, 
Indiana. 

Conwell B. Carson was the only son of James M. 
and Winifred Burnside Carson, and was a descendant 
of General Ambrose E. Burnside. He entered the 
college with the class of 1915, but did not remain long. 
He graduated from the Indiana Law School in 1918. 
He was a close student, conscientious in all his under- 
takings, of high principle and devout patriotism. 

He enlisted at Shelbyville, Indiana, June 24, 1918; 
was detailed to Camp Sherman ; assigned to Headquar- 
ters Company, One Hundred Fifty-eighth Depot Bri- 
gade; on September 7, promoted to Adjutant Detach- 
ment Camp Headquarters, Camp Sherman, for the re- 
maining weeks of his service. 

LiEUTENAisrT Kenneth Victor Elliott, '20, died 
August 31, 1918, in Base Hospital Number 23, of 
wounds received while in action at Chateau Thierry, at 
the age of twenty-three years. He was buried in the 
American cemetery at Vittel, France. 



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Lieutenant Elliott enlisted at Indianapolis in May, 
1917, and entered the First Officers' Training Camp 
at Fort Benjamin Harrison. In August he was com- 
missioned second lieutenant. After training at Camp 
Colt, Pennsylvania, at Camp Greene, North Carolina, 
and at Fort Still, Oklahoma, he was assigned to 
the Machine Gun Battalion, Fifty-eighth United 
States Infantry, Fourth division, and sailed overseas 
June, 1918. He was commissioned first lieutenant on 
June 20. The division landed in England and pro- 
ceeded to Calais, following which it, for the most part, 
trained in the Saumur area with the British. In July 
the division was sent to the front, and on August 7, 
Lieutenant Elliott received wounds from which he died. 

Kenneth Elliott was a dramatic figure. He swung 
into the college vision, unknown, in the autumn of 1916. 
A dignified thoughtful bearing declared he knew his 
own mind and had a purpose in the coming. He made 
many friends. There was something superior in his 
manner, in his type of thought. One knew instinctively 
that his experience had been broader and deeper than 
that of most young men at his age. And so it had been. 
He had left his home town of Sheridan, Indiana, and 
for four years had been in the United States Navy, thus 
traveling around the world. As a boy he must have 
dreamed greatly. Scarcely out of boyhood he had con- 
verted those dreams into reality. Kenneth Elliott had 
that rare power of bringing things to pass. He 
knew he wanted a college education. He came to But- 
ler. He was a leader of Freshman activities, alive to 
every interest and full of possible betterrrient. He 
knew fine literature, he loved it and made it his own. 
He was rare, so rare that when an Indianapolis towms- 
man met him on the train with troops of other soldier 



218 BUTLER COLLEGE 

boys en route to their training camp, he fell into con- 
versation with him, and later converted that impres- 
sion in his ''Valley of Democracy" into the typical 
youth of the West. In a letter written by Mr. Meredith 
Nicholson are these words: "He made a deep impres- 
sion upon me by reason of his simplicity, his wide 
range of interests, his fine ambitions. We talked a 
long time on the train that night, and mostly of the 
sea — of the rush of great waters and the stars and the 
way of sailor folk. He was like a good book. The 
poetry of the sea had entered into his soul, the mystery 
and the wonder of it. It was an inspiration to know 
him. The memory of his manliness, his high aims, his 
understanding of those things that are of good report, 
will always abide with me. 

'Good lives do not go out, they go on!' And he has 
lived a full life and it is not for us to think that it is 
not complete and fully rounded, or that it perished in 
the thing we call death. He gave the most precious 
thing he had for his country and for the women and 
children of the world, and he is one of the heroes of 
this mighty war for freedom and justice and mercy. 
And I like to think of him as he said goodbye that 
night, hopeful, courageous, with no fear in his eyes of 
what lay before him. He sails somewhere beyond our 
knowing, upon a good ship in tranquil seas, with 
friends about him and happy isles ahead. ' ' 

CoEPOEAL, Deaist Weston Fuluee, '18, died in the 
Base Hospital, Palo Alto, California, on July 6, 1920, 
at the age of twenty-five years. He was buried in 
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. 

His life was spent in his native Indianapolis, save 
for the twenty-one months in the service of his country. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 219 

and for a brief visit from home in his sixteenth year, 
interesting here because a letter then received from 
the mother he had loved and lost travelled in his 
pocket throughout the experiences of life overseas and 
in the West. 

In Dean Fuller was a striking union of strength and 
gentleness. Not rugged in physique, he yet accom- 
plished definite results surprising for one of his years. 
He had little to say of what to others might have 
seemed hard. He was modest and unassuming ; indus- 
trious, aspiring, sincere, happy; at all times he was 
the gentleman in appearance and in manner — beautiful 
to look upon with his delicately carved features and 
winning smile. Everywhere he won friends. 

It smote to the heart to see Corporal Fuller leave for 
the southern camp; but a much keener pang was felt 
when he returned from overseas with Battery F, One 
Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, the best of life 
having departed. Death did not come to him short and 
sharp upon the field of action, but for many months his 
battle was fought in Base Hospital, facing and accept- 
ing without complaint or even regret the inevitable out- 
come of the too rigorous camp life. He was discharged 
at his own request from Camp Benjamin Harrison to 
seek a friendlier climate, and he ''went West." 

Lieutenant John Charles Good, A. B. '17, died of 
pneumonia on March 30, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, at 
the age of twenty-four years. A world of hope closed 
when this only son was laid in the Ebenezer Lutheran 
cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Charles Good was a favorite with everybody, par- 
ticipating in general activities. He was captain of the 
football team and president of his class in its junior 



220 BUTLER COLLEGE 

year. He stood for the best things — things of "good 
report. ' ' He loved flowers and music, good fellowship 
and good books. He was forceful, and sympathetic. 
His kindliness and his smile linger, and he will long 
be held in affectionate memory. 

He enlisted on August 27, at Indianapolis, attended 
the Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, where he was commissioned second lieuten- 
ant, and was detailed to Camp Dodge as member of 
Company C, Three Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artil- 
lery. He did not see the active service for which he 
longed, but his friends knew he would have met any 
crisis with a full measure of devotion. He did his duty 
and he did it well. 

Lieutenant Robeet Edwaed Kennington, '15, fell 
heroically fighting at Chateau Thierry on August 4, 
1918, at the age of twenty-five years. He was buried 
in the American cemetery near Fere-en-Tardenois, sit- 
uated on a hillside looking toward Chateau Thierry, 
and reburied, on July 9, 1921, in Crown Hill cemetery, 
Indianapolis. 

He was a student of the college during the years 
1911-1913, afterwards graduating from the Indiana 
Law School. He had just entered with promise his 
chosen profession when the call to the Colors came. 
One need not be told that he was among the first to 
enlist in the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort 
Benjamin Harrison that May, 1917, which saw so many 
Butler students offer their lives for the help of the 
world. Here he was commissioned second lieutenant 
and transferred to the United States Army. After 
training at Camp Colt, Pennsylvania, and at Camp 
Greene, North Carolina, he sailed over seas April 28 




CORPORAL DEAN WESTON 

FULLER 

July 6, 1920 




LIEUTENANT JOHN 

CHARLES GOOD 

March 30, 1918 




LIEUTENANT ROBERT ED- 
WARD KENNINGTON 
August 8, 1918 



SERGEANT HENRY REIN- 
HOLD LEUKHARDT 
October 2, 1918 



IN THE WORLD WAR 221 

with the Fourth division, landing in England and pro- 
ceeding to Calais, thence to the Saumur area for train- 
ing. On July 15, he was sent to the front, having pre- 
viously been commissioned first lieutenant. He was 
killed in action August 4, 1918, while leading his men 
through a German barrage. 

The Chaplain of the Fifty-eighth Infantry wrote: 
' ' The afternoon of August 4, we commenced our attack, 
starting from a large farm near the town of Chery, 
northeast of Chateau Thierry. It was our second 
fight and naturally all felt like veterans and went at 
it with a will. Our battalion was on the left flank and 
had to pursue a course through a ravine covered by 
German artillery. It went through with few cas- 
ualties in spite of a rather heavy barrage. There were 
a number of difficult positions to be cleared, but our 
boys were absolutely fearless. It was very evident 
that the enemy was retreating and depending exclu- 
sively upon artillery and machine guns to protect his 
retreat. The enemy took up a position at the River 
Vesle where we had some bitter fighting later and 
where he remained twenty days after our division was 
relieved. But in advance of that position, especially 
the first few days of the fighting, he had a number of 
outposts and snipers. Sometimes these were in large 
groups and as the country was hilly and woody and 
favorable to defensive operations there was plenty of 
work to be done. 

Lieutenant Kennington had just taken up a posi- 
tion on the crest of the hill overlooking the ravine. Ho 
had with him a squad of automatic riflemen. They 
were barely in position when a high explosive shell of 
large calibre made a direct hit on their position, killing 
seven of them instantly. Lieutenant Kennington was 



222 BUTLER COLLEGE 

struck in the forehead by a small fragment which 
caused instant death. The Red Cross station was near 
at hand, but he had passed beyond human aid. Later 
when opportunity offered, I buried him in the cemetery 
at the Les Pres Farm, near Chery-Chartreuve, north 
of Chateau Thierry. 

Lieutenant Kennington was an excellent officer, 
faithful and conscientious in the discharge of his duty. 
He was most popular with his brother officers and 
loved by his men. As a leader he was able and effi- 
cient and acquitted himself nobly in our first fight in 
which we took part in the beginning of the allied coun- 
ter-offensive, July 18. It was then stem work for all 
of us, but the credit for all success was due to the pla- 
toon leaders like Lieutenant Kennington, who were 
shining examples of all military virtues. 

It is no exaggeration to say we knew Lieutenant 
Kennington even better than his friends at home. 
Danger is the real test of a man, it shows his true na- 
ture and lays bare his very soul. He stood this test 
unflinchingly and gave an exhibition of fine manly 
heroic virtues. His memory will long be treasured by 
all who knew him here. ' ' 

At the college, Robert Kennington was known as a 
man of action, intensely alive, simple, lovable, not 
troubled overmuch with brooding introspection and the 
pale cast of thought, but rich in a rugged common- 
sense philosophy and a breezy humanity that found 
outlets in many a pleasant way. Danger and hardship 
exhilarated him. Life had been full of sunshine; the 
future prospect was as bright. Plans far into the fu- 
ture years had been laid: professional attainment, use- 
ful citizenship, happy home. It was a costly sacrifice 
that laid all on the altar of freedom. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 223 

At a meeting of the Indianapolis Bar Association a 
former Butler man* said, in part: ''Robert Kenning- 
ton was a thorough student of the law Un- 
usual personal charm endeared him to those with whom 
he came in contact and won for him a host of friends. 
His ambition to succeed did not tempt him selfishly to 
crowd ahead of others. Straightforward manly ways, 
kindliness towards others, a winning smile that made 
one glad even for the most casual meeting, are qualities 
that we recall. To these should be added the high 
ideals that took him so quickly into his country's ser- 
vice, enabled him to face death and give 'the last full 
measure of devotion ' to the cause to which his life was 
pledged. 

Robert Kennington's career at the bar was like his 
career in arms, all too brief. At the bar, it was full of 
promise ; in arms, a single month brought immortality. 
The torch he so bravely held aloft he has thrown to us 
that in his spirit we, too, may hold it high. It is his 
happy lot to be remembered always as one who by way 
of splendid death has entered into eternal youth. ' ' 

Sergeant Henry Reinhold Leukhardt, '12, died of 
pneumonia on October 2, 1918, at Camp Pike, Ar- 
kansas, at the age of thirty years. He was buried in 
St. Joseph cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Henry Leukhardt enlisted, December 7, 1917, in the 

Aviation Signal Corps. He trained at Fort ThomaS; 

Kentucky; Camp Taylor, Kentucky; Kelly Field, 

Texas ; Eberts Field, Arkansas ; Camp Pike, Arkansas. 

On April 10, 1918, he was appointed Sergeant, One 

Hundred Twenty-fourth Aero Squadron at Eberts 

Field. At his own request he was transferred to the 
♦Charles W. Moores, '82. 



224 BUTLER COLLEGE 

infantry of the United States Army. At the time of 
his death he was teaching in the Development battery, 
Headquarters Company, One Hundred Sixty-second 
Depot Brigade, Camp Pike. The transfer from avia- 
tion to army reduced him from sergeant to private. 
This demotion he felt and was eager for a commission. 

Henry Leukhardt was a star player on the football 
team of 1908, and was made of the stuff of which real 
athletes are made. All the energy and fire and skill 
of football were turned into the far nobler game in 
which, in 1918, the world was engaged. He was restive 
in the home service, eager to get overseas. To a friend 
he wrote : '^What I want most of all is a chance to go 
across. I would be a fine big boob when it's all 
over over there and never to have had my hand in it. 
I know there is such a thing as doing my bit at home: 
but I'm full of pep and want to let it out where it will 
do some good. Also, I want a chance at a commission, 
as I feel capable of making good." The longed-for 
commission came the afternoon before his death, but 
he never knew it. 

As one stood in that home, German by name, but 
finely American in spirit, one realized that the sacri- 
fice of the young man lying there enfolded with the 
Stars and Stripes had peculiar significance, that a 
higher promotion had come and that a larger service 
was now his. 

Peivate WiiiSoisr Russeul, Mercer, '22, died of pneu- 
monia at the Base Hospital of the Butler College unit, 
on December 12, at the age of nineteen years. He was 
buried at his home town of Anderson, Indiana. 

Russell Mercer entered the college in the autumn of 
1918. He was of the Students' Army Training Corps 



IN THE WORLD WAR 225 

which on that memorable October 1, swore allegiance 
to its land and was inducted into service. 

He was a man of athletic and scholastic promise. 
In high school he had been a basketball enthusiast and 
had taken part in general activities. He was fond of 
canoeing. He loved Nature and the country was 
always more attractive to him than the towm. He was 
thoughtful and studious and earnest. Whatever his 
hand touched he did mth his might. He loved what- 
ever he was doing with a warm enthusiasm — his school, 
his studies, his teachers, his military life and its op- 
portunity of service ; he loved his friends and spoke 
only good of them. He was true to every trust com- 
mitted to him. He had youth in his limbs, light in his 
face, hope in his heart. 

Corporal Guy Griffith Michael, '11, died of diph- 
theria at the Base Hospital, Quantico, Virginia, on 
April 10, 1919, at the age of forty-two years, and was 
buried at Noblesville, Indiana. 

Guy Michael did not remain long at the college, leav 
ing to pursue his medical studies. As an oculist he 
practiced his profession in Noblesville. He enlisted 
in Cincinnati, June 1, 1917. On the following day he 
was sent to Paris Island, South Carolina, where he was 
promoted to corporal. Here he was detached from his 
company to become secretary to Chaplain Father Mc- 
Donald. Later he was transferred to Quantico as 
warrant officer and chief reporter on the Marine 
weekly, known as "The Leatherneck." He was dis- 
charged on March 25, 1919, and had hoped to reach 
home on the day he was brought home. 



226 BUTLER COLLEGE 

COEPOEAL MaESH WhITNEY NOTTINGHAM, '19, WaS 

killed in action while leading a party across No Man's 
Land on July 31, 1918, at the age of twenty-one years. 
He was buried near Eoncheres, France; reburied, on 
August 1, 1921, in Beech Grove cemetery, Muncie, In- 
diana. 

Marsh Nottingham had, from childhood, been gifted 
with the use of his pencil, having received scholarships 
from the John Her r on Art Institute while in the grades 
and at the Manual Training High School. His artistic 
sense showed itself, also, in a love of music. While he 
never made it a study, he played well the piano and 
several stringed instruments. A tiny banjo-mandolin 
was his frequent and loved companion over there. ''It 
is battle-scarred," he wrote home, "but will make a 
tune. I hope to keep it and bring it back with me. It 
will be quite a relic. ' ' It was sent home, as ' ' Mr. Brit- 
ling" sent the pathetic object of the love of the young 
German tutor. But it was not only the gentler virtues 
which characterized Marsh; he had rugged force and 
determination, a fondness for athletic sports, and the 
strong manly qualities. He was tactful and thought- 
ful and very considerate of others; perhaps he was 
slow in forming friendships, but having made a friend 
he grappled him with hoops of steel. 

As he looked forward to illustration as a profession. 
Marsh transferred, during his freshman year, his 
studies from Butler College to the Art Institute, and 
had planned to study later in New York ; but when the 
bugles sounded war he cast aside his easel and threw 
his lot in with the agonizing world. He enlisted as a 
camouflage artist. His overseas service with the Head- 
quarters Company of the Sevent}^- sixth Field Artillery, 
Third division was brief as it was intense. A comrade 



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wrote: ^'It was a great fight. Every time a man 
moved it seemed as though a thousand guns opened fire 
instantly. There we were in the midst of it all, not 
knowing what sorrow the day would bring forth. In- 
formation we had gathered in regard to the position of 
machine guns had to get back as soon as possible to 
the Major of the battalion; but we soon found our 
telephone communication had been broken. Then it 
was Marsh showed what stuff he was made of. He 
volunteered to carry the message forward through in- 
tense shelling. He started. Soon he was struck, a 
piece of shell must have pierced his heart. He had a 
smile for every one in life, in death it was the same." 
The smile in the picture which hangs on the chapel 
wall may well be a study. It reveals, at all events, 

''A countenance in which did meet 
Sweet records, promises as sweet," 

as well as the power of the ''extraordinary heroism in 
action" expressed in the citation accompanying the 
Distinguished Service Cross posthumously sent to his 
parents : 

"AMEEICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES UNITED STATES 

ARMY 

Distinguished Service Cross Citation 

Corporal Marsh W. Nottingham, Headquarters Company, Seventy-sixth 
Field Artillery, distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in con- 
nection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United 
States at Roneheres, France, on 31 July, 1918, and in recognition of his 
gallant conduct I have awarded him in the name of the President, the 
Distinguished Service Cross. 

John J. Pershing, 
Commander-in-chief. ' ' 
Awarded on 3 January, 1919. 



228 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Captain Victor Hugo Nysewander, '10, was killed 
in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive near Banthe- 
ville, on November 1, 1918, at the age of thirty-two 
years. He was buried in the American cemetery at 
Romagne, reburied in his native town, Plainfield, In- 
diana, September 15, 1921. 

Victor H. Nysewander entered Butler College with 
the class of '10, later studying at Indiana University, 
and graduating as an ''honor man" from the Law 
School of the University of Michigan. He enlisted in 
Indianapolis, August 26, 1917; trained in the Second 
Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
where he was commissioned first lieutenant, and at 
Camp Travis, Texas, where he was assigned to Com- 
pany C, Officers' Battalion, One Hundred Sixty-fifth 
Depot Brigade, and later transferred to Company K, 
Three Hundred Fifty-ninth United States Infantry, 
Nintieth division, American Expeditionary Forces. 
He sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, June, 1918, 
landed in England July 1; was detailed during July 
and August to Chatillon-sur-Seine ; was gassed in the 
Saint Mihiel drive on September 15, after four days 
fighting which won for him the promotion to captaincy 
— the rank of which he was justly proud because won 
on the battlefield. After being discharged from the 
hospital on September 25, he was placed at the head of 
Company K, Three Hundred Fifty-ninth infantry, 
which he commanded until his death. 

Captain Nysewander had the thoughtful determina- 
tion of the mature man, consideration for his own 
men, warm gratitude for hospitality received in Eng- 
land and in France, always kindly, generous, cour- 
ageously enthusiastic. 

His colonel wrote, in part : ' ' Our regiment had been 




PRIVATE WILSON RUSSELL CORPORAL GUY GRIFFITH 

MERCER MICHAEL 

December 12, 1918 April 10, 1919 




CORPORAL MARSH WHITNEY 

NOTTINGHAM 

July 31, 1918 



CAPTAIN VICTOR HUGO 

NYSEWANDER 

November 1, 1918 



IN THE WORLD WAR 229 

in the Meuse-Argoime sector since October 16, and on 
the 30th of that month we took over the front lines 
just north of Bantheville. On the morning of Novem- 
ber 1 a great attack was launched against the enemy 
and as the morning wore on they began to reply heavily 
with their artillery. Captain Nysewander was leading 
his Company K, and as they were approaching the 
road that ran from Bantheville to another village called 
Aincreville they were met by the fierce German bar- 
rage. Captain Nysewander immediately gave orders 
to his men to seek what protection they could in the 
shell-holes or behind the bank of the road. While he 
was giving these instructions, standing there so 
bravely with shells falling all about him, his one 
thought being the safety and protection of the men un- 
der his command, he met his soldier's death. A shell 
exploded nearby and a piece of it struck him in the 
temple, killing him instantly. The same shell, let me 
add, killed a corporal of his company and a German 
prisoner who was standing beside him. The chaplain 
and his party came upon the body not long after, cov- 
ered it wdth a blanket, and the next day buried it with 
such military honors as were possible under the cir- 
cumstances, in the little newly-made American ceme- 
tery at the edge of the village of Bantheville. He is 
laid away with fellow officers and men. A cross 
stands at the head of his grave and on it is given his 
name and other particulars of identification. 

Assuredly your pride in Victor must be profound. 
Alive, he was one of our best officers, efficient in all 
his work, brave in all campaigns, and especially so on 
the day of his death; dead, he is one of the eminent 
exemplars of whom our entire country is proud. His 



230 BUTLER COLLEGE 

name \vill live forever on America's rolls; he gave 
all he had, his glorious young life, and gave it willingly, 
generously, bravely for his country." 

A comrade wrote of this beloved captain: "He 
sacrificed his all for the noblest cause for which man 
has ever fought. Not a man but would have given 
his own life to save Captain Nysewander. He fell a 
hero, bravely facing the enemy on the field of honor 
while leading his company over the top. ' ' 

Peivate Maevin Francis Race, '21, died of pneu- 
monia on January 26, 1919, in the Base Hospital of 
Lincoln, Nebraska, at the age of eighteen years, and 
was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Marvin Race seemed a mere boy, but the man was 
in him and the soldier was in him. He loved work and 
worked hard; he loved play and played hard. In 
athletics he was in his element. His alertness of mind 
and quickness of step made him one of the best of his 
team. So eager was he to enlist and to do his full 
share in the great struggle, that he came several miles 
from his home for drill at seven o'clock in the morn- 
ing. Then, classes, work in the afternoon at The In- 
dianapolis News, basketball practice, studies, in all of 
which he met his full obligation, made the daily pro 
gram of this alive, happy, aspiring lad. 

Working during the summer with brothers in the 
West, and that he might continue to be near those 
brothers, Marvin enlisted in the Students' Army 
Training Corps of the University of Nebraska. Here 
his battle — his first and his last — was fought. A ten 
weeks ' struggle with influenza and its effects ended on 
January 26. He wanted to live, he fought to live, but 
he did not shrink from death. Unafraid he answered 



IN THE WORLD WAR 231 

the last roll call and found doubtless the Captain of 
his Salvation waiting to meet him face to face when 
he had crossed the bar. He was a gracious spirit, 
loving whatsoever things are fair, and the unconscious 
influence of his young life continues to reach far. 

Lieutenant Bruce Pettibone Robison, A. B., '15, 
died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on November 19, 1918, at 
the age of twenty-four years, and was buried in Crown 
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Bruce Robison was a student in the Law School of 
George Washington University when the United States 
entered the war. He passed examination, at Fort 
Myer, Virginia, for the Officers ' Reserve Corps, prior 
to the declaration of war and was commissioned second 
lieutenant of cavalry. May 1, 1917, and ordered into 
active service May 11, as a student-instructor in the 
First Officers ' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison. On the termination of this assignment, he was 
ordered to Camp Dodge, Iowa, as inspector-instructor 
of bayonet training. From October, 1917, to March, 
1918, he was acting-adjutant, first battalion, Three 
Hundred Forty-ninth infantry. He was then ordered 
to Camp Perry, Ohio, for a sixty days ' course in small 
arms firing. On completion of this course, he was re- 
ordered to Camp Dodge as instructor. He was com- 
missioned first lieutenant of United States Infantry, 
July 24, 1918. 

Bruce belonged to Butler College by strong ties, 
seen and unseen. He was manly, forward-looking. He 
stood for progression in all academic interests, whether 
athletic, social or scholastic. He was open-minded and 
high-minded. His soldierly spirit manifested itself in 



232 BUTLER COLLEGE 

a remark to a fellow- student, after he had been as- 
signed as physical instructor to a colored officers' 
training school: ''How do you like the assignment?" 
asked the student. ''It's not for me to say. I am a 
soldier and these are my orders," replied the gallant 
officer. 

He had a striking influence over younger classmen. 
His judgment was final to them ; his commendation an 
honor indeed. They recognized his gentlemanly 
qualities. 

The life which opened with such promise was a 
heart-rending sacrifice, and the college mourns him. 
But he lives. Somewhere he lives. And those who 
knew and who loved him do not forget that the war 
has touched him to immortality. 

Lieutenant MacCrea Stephenson, '12, was brought 
to his death in the Saint Mihiel offensive on September 
18, 1918; he was buried near Jamy, France, and re- 
buried in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis, June 19, 
1921. 

MacCrea Stephenson was the product of good, 
refined, wise home-training. He combined "within him- 
self those qualities which make the high type of Ameri- 
can manhood — energy, resoluteness, sympathy, intelli- 
gence, purpose in life, responsibility to self, to parents, 
to society, to country, to God. Attractive in appear- 
ance, interesting in conversation, one knew instinc- 
tively that he was a young man of fine temper. 

MacCrea Stephenson enlisted in the Air Service 
soon after the declaration of war, entering the Dayton 
Aviation Training School. After completing the offi- 
cers' training course, he was sent to Mineola, Long 
Island, in command of the One Hundred Third Aero 





PRIVATE MARVIN FRANCIS LIEUTKXAXT UKUCE PETTI- 
RACE BONE ROBISON 
January 26, 1919 November 19, 1918 





LIEUTENANT MacCREA 

STEPHENSON 

September 18, 1918 



APPRENTICE-SEAMAN 

HENRY CLARENCE TOON 

January 2J, 1918 



IN THE WORLD WAE 233 

Squadron. Here he spent seven weeks of intensive 
training. On November 22, his command sailed over- 
seas; via Liverpool, he arrived in France in January, 
1918. After a course in advanced flying, bombing, and 
gunning in various schools of instruction, he was at- 
tached to the Seventh and later to the Eleventh Aero 
Squadron. With the latter Squadron he made his last 
flight on September 18. A bombing raid of six ma- 
chines set out for the field at Amanty, Meuse, near 
Gondrecourt, with La Chausse as objective. A Hun 
plane dropped a note near Toul stating that MacCrea 
Stephenson had died in Germany. 

Months passed without definite knowledge of the 
whereabouts of Lieutenant Stephenson. Not until 
March 10, 1919, was anything known of the fate of the 
brave aviator, and then only because a brother, Lieu- 
tenant Edward E. Stephenson, Battery B, Three Hun- 
dred Twelfth Field Artillery, Seventy-ninth division, 
was detailed in search of information. In a letter, he 
says : ''If I could only make the air fight half as won- 
derful as told by the peasants who watched and knew 

it moment by moment It was the height of 

the San Mihiel drive. Their bombs had been released 
and they were returning to the base, when they were 
met by the Richthoven Circus of greatly superior num- 
bers. All five planes were shot down, two making safe 
landing, though the men were wounded. The men 
from the burning planes were dragged from them by 
the Germans immediately after they fell, to secure all 
possible papers of identification or information ; these 
being secured and all articles of clothing of value taken 
from them, the men were left uncared for. After sev- 
eral days the French peasants were allowed to bury 
them They were carried one and a half kilo- 



234 BUTLER COLLEGE 

meters to a cemetery, tenderly covered with sheets and 
canvas, and laid side by side in one grave. And here is 
the finest tribute of all. The Mayor collected about 
five hundred francs with which were purchased two 
large Lorraine crosses. These crosses are covered 
with their beaded floral offerings. About the grave had 
been placed a twisted rope of laurel or green vine. As 
no American flag was obtainable, the Mayor's wife 
used her husband 's red and blue necktie and with white 
ribbon made the colors which were tied about the 
wreaths. No one family, but all seemed to have helped. 

From the peasants we learned that MacCrea 

fired his guns till his plane struck the ground. ' ' 

If, according to George Eliot, "the greatest gift a 
hero leaves his race is to have been a hero," then Lieu- 
tenant Stephenson left to the world the greatest of 
heroic gifts. One sees it in the face which hangs on 
the college wall. It would seem the artist had caught 
his expression at the moment of decision. The young 
man has heard the call, he has measured its meaning, 
with all the high seriousness of his natui:'e he is ready 
with his reply — ready, because he knows " 'Tis God's 
voice calls. ' ' 

Apprentice- Seaman Henry Clarence Toon, '15, 
died of pneumonia at the Naval Training Station, 
Great Lakes, Illinois, on January 20, 1918. He was 
buried in the Buck Creek cemetery, near Julietta, In- 
diana. 

Clarence Toon had served a long training in warfare 
with ill health, and, disciplined by disappointment, he 
had won many battles. After repeated efforts to enter 
the service, he had been accepted in the Radio Depart- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 235 

ment of the United States Navy and had been assigned 
to the Great Lakes Station. Exposure and work had 
overtaxed his strength, and in January (one month 
after enlistment) he died. 

He was fun-loving, generous, manly, cheerful when 
it cost to be cheerful, had a power to inspire others to 
accomplish the things denied to him, 

Apprentice-Seaman Toon was the first student of 
Butler College to fall. He went to his death as heroic- 
ally as any on the battlefield. The college honors him 
as she honors them. 



CHAPTER V 

Butler College in Earlier Wars 

THE CIVIL war 

Abbott, William A., Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Adams, James W., Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Alexander, George W., Twenty-second Indiana Battery, Light Artillery. 

Ames, Edward E., Seventh United States Infantry and Eleventh 

Infantry. 
Anderson, Marion T., Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. 
Armentrout, George W., United States Navy. 
Armstrong, James W., Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 
Atwater, Amzi, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 
Avery, John P., Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 
Barker, Jerry, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. 
Barnett, John L., Eighth Cavalry. 
Beaty, John C, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Beaty, David C, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 
Bell, Milton, Eighty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. 
Branham, J. C, Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Brevoort, Edward L., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 
Brown, William M., Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 
Butler, Chauncy, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 
Butler, Scot, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers. 
Buttz, Michael E., One Hundred Fifty- first Illinois Volunteers. 
Cappell, Frank, One Hundred Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers. 
Carter, Vinson, Twelfth Indiana Volunteers. 
Cassell, Frank C, One Hundred Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers. 
Cassell, J. Montgomery, One Hundred Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. 
Cassell, H. C, Seventy-second Indiana Volunteers. 
Challen, James E., Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteers. 
Challen, Thurston C, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteers. 
Chesire, W. W., One Hundred Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. 

236 




"THE OLD UNIVERSITY" 

College Avenue 

Indianapolis 



IN THE CIVIL WAR 237 

Cole, Barton W., One Hundred Thirty-sixth and One Hundred Forty- 
sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Cotton, J. W., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Craig, J. C, Seventh Indiana Volunteers and Thirty-third Indiana Vol- 
unteers. 

Grain, Silas B., Tenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Covington, George B., Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Cox, Charles H., Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. 

Cox, M., Twenty-first Indiana Volunteers. 

Crose, John S., Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Cunningham, Clinton F., Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Curtis, Alfred, Nineteenth United States Infantry. 

Danforth, Albert Judson, Jr., One Hundred Twenty-fourth Indiana Vol- 
unteers. 

Daugherty, William Wirt, Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Davis, Henry Clay, Eighty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Dennis, Charles, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Dixon, William A., Ohio Volunteers. 

Downey, James E., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Doyal, John L., Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Dumont, John F., One Hundred Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers (Seventh 
Cavalry). 

Dunbar, John C, Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Dunbar, Samuel A., Eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Duncan, John Sanders, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Dunn, Addison M., Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Eagle, John S., One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers. 

Eddy, Lon H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Ellsworth, Henry L., One Hundred Fiftieth Indiana Volunteers. 

Elstun, John W., One Hundred Twenty-third Indiana Volunteers. 

Elstun, Marion, Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Enos, K. C, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Evans, William H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Fleming, John S., Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Foltz, Howard M., United States Navy. 

Foudray, James, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Foster, Chapin C, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Frenyear, George J., Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. 

Galvin, George W., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Gillespie, W. A., Thirty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. 



238 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Gist, George W., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers, 

GoodAvin, Angelo, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Gordon, Joseph E. T., Nineth Indiana Volunteers. 

Graham, W. H. H., Sixth Cavalry. 

Graydon, Andrew, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, Meigs Battery, United 
States Volunteers and Eleventh Infantry. 

Graydon, James W., Seventieth Indiana Volunteers and United States 
Navy. 

Green, John C, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Guffin, John, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers and One Hundred Fifty- 
sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Guffin, Eoss, Fifty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Hadley, John V., Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Hall, Perry, Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Harden, John W., Tenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Harper, Eufus, Seventy-nineth Indiana Volunteers. 

Hayden, Marshall P., Fifty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. 

Hobbs, Alvin I., Sixty-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Holliday, Cortez F., One Hundred Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Holliday, John H., One Hundred Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Holliday, Wilbur F., Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers. 

Hornaday, Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers (First Cavalry). 

Hubbard, E. G., One Hundred Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. 

Hunt, Charles, One Hundred Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Hunt, Walter, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Igoe, Martin, Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. 

Jameson, Alexander C, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Jenkins, Jesse, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers. 

Jewell, W. E., Seventh Indiana Volunteers and Seventy-second Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Jones, Horace, United States Navy. 

Keith, Squire Isham, Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Kellogg, Justin M., One Hundred Forty-third Indiana Volunteers. 

Ketcham, John Lewis, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. 

Ketcham, William A., Thirteenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Langsdale, George J., Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Langsdale, Eobert, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. 

Lawhead, Thomas E., Seventy-seventh Indiana Volunteers (Fourth 
Cavalry). 

Lewis, John H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 



IN THE CIVIL WAR 239 

Long, Henry C, One Hundred Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers and 
Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. 

Major, W. S., One Hundred Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Manlove, John, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

May, Alvin D., Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers. 

May, George A., Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteers (First Cavalry). 

May, J. Hannegan, Twelfth United States Infantry. 

Mauzy, James H., Sixty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Metcalf, S1??phen, Seventy-fifth Indiana Volunteers. 

Miner, Willis E., Forty-first Indiana Volunteers (Second Cavalry). 

Moore, Henry M., Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteers. 

Morris, Charles G., Twentieth Indiana Battery, Light Artillery. 

Morris, James W., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Morris, John I., Twentieth Indiana Battery, Light Artillery. 

Morris, Lewis T., Nineteenth United States Infantry. 

Morris, Thomas O., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

McChesney, Edward, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

McLaughlin, Casper W., Twenty-sixth Indiana Battery, Light Artillery 
and Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Neff, James L., One Hundred Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. 

New, Frank R., Seventh Indiana Volunteers and Eleventh Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Parker, R. P., Seventh Indiana Volunteers and Fourth United States 
Colored Troops. 

Patterson, James H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers 
and Nineteenth United States Infantry. 

Pattison, Augustus E., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Pattison, Terrell, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Pee, Emmett, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Phipps, Charles, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Phipps, Joseph B., One Hundred Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Phipps, William C, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Pickerill, William N., Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Poston, C. W., Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Ritter, Eli F., Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers and Seventy-ninth In- 
diana Volunteers. 

Robbins, Irvin, Seventh Indiana Volunteers and One Hundred Twenty- 
third Indiana Volunteers. 

Roberts, John H., Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Rosengarten, Leon, One Hundred Fourth Indiana Volunteers. 



240 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Euble, W. E., Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Euddell, James H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Secrest, Nathan, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers and United States Col- 
ored Infantry. 

Senour, John, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Sheets, W. H. H., Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Shortridge, William C, Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Southard, George, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Southard, Macy, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Smith, Butler K., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Smock, S. J., Tenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Snoddy, James H., Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Spahr, George W., Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Squier, Piatt J., Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. 

Stephenson, Eichard, Quartermaster United States Volunteers. 

Stone, V. H., Fifth United States Artillery. 

Story, E. C, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers and Tvrenty- 
sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Strong, John T., Forty-fourth United States Colored Infantry. 

Sulgrove, George W., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Taylor, E. A., Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. 

Tilford, Jesse W., Seventy-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Tilford, John H., Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Tilford, Samuel E., Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Thayer, Edward, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Thomas, D. L., Sixty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Todd, Jerome G., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Tomlinson, Samuel, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Traub, Jacob, Fifteenth Indiana Battery, Light Artillery. 

Tutewiler, Henry W., Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. 

Vaile, W. P., One Hundred Thirty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Van Buskirk, D. E., One Hundred Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. 

Vance, George P., One Hundred Thirty- second Volunteers and United 
States Navy. 

Vance, Samuel C, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers, 
Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers and Seventieth Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Van Voorhees, Flavius L., Eighty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. 

Varner, Jacob, Seventh Indiana Volunteers. 



IN THE CIVIL WAR 241 

Wallace, George E., Thirteenth Indiana Volunteers and Seventy-ninth 
Indiana Volunteers. 

Weaver, Amos C, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers. 

Weaver, Augustus C, Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers. (Third Cavalry.) 

Wells, George M., Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. 

Whisler, Josephus, Thirty-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Whitten, James H., Twenty-third Indiana Volunteers and Eleventh 
United States Infantry. 

Whitten, John W., Eleventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Whitsell, W. H., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Wilkerson, Thomas B., Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Williams, Daniel B., Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers. 

Williams, David B., Seventeenth Indiana Battery, Light Infantry. 

Wilson, Harvey B., Eleventh Indiana Volunteers and Seventy-second 
Indiana Volunteers. 

Wilson, Henry B., Eleventh Indiana Volunteers and Seventy-second In- 
diana Volunteers. 

Wilson, Louis C, Forty-fifth Indiana Volunteers (Third Cavalry). 

Wilson, Thomas K., One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Wright, Benjamin C, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers. 

Yount, D. O., Sixty-ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Confederate 

Davidson, Preston A., Stonewall Brigade, Confederate States Army. 



THE EOLL OF HONOR 

THURSTON C. CHALLEN. Date of death unknown. 

GEORGE B. COVINGTON. Killed June 1, 1864, in Atlanta Campaign. 

ALBERT JUDSON DANFORTH, Jr. Killed on a date not reported. 

JOHN L. DOYAL. Killed May 5, 1864, in battle of the Wilderness. 

SAMUEL A. DUNBAR. Died of wounds received at Terre Bonne, 
Louisiana, July 8, 1864. 

ADDISON M. DUNN. Killed November 30, 1864, in battle of Frank- 
lin, Tennessee. 

MARION ELSTUN. Died of wounds at Vinings Station, Georgia, 
July 23, 1864. 

GEORGE J. FRENYEAR. Died from effects of service August 1, 1863. 

JOSEPH R. T. GORDON. Killed in battle of Greenbriar, West Vir- 
ginia, December 13, 1861. 



242 BUTLER COLLEGE 

EUFUS HAEPER. Killed in battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 

1863. 
PEREY HALL. Died of typhoid fever at Indianapolis October 27, 1862. 
MARSHALL PEATBY HAYDEN. Killed in battle of Chickasaw 

Bayou, December 29, 1864. 
SQUIEE ISHAM KEITH. Killed in battle of Perryville, October 8, 

1862. 
JAMES LAWEENCE NEFF. Killed at Kingston, North Carolina, 

March 10, 1865. 
PLATT J. SQUIEE. Killed in battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 
JESSE WAEEEN TILFOED. Died of typhoid fever at Gallatin, Jan- 
uary 18, 1863. 
GEOEGE P. VANCE. Died of wounds received at Paducah, Kentucky, 

July 10, 1864. 
JACOB VAENEE. Died of wounds received in battle of Port Eepublie, 

June 8, 1862. 



When I think of the noble conduct of Indiana in this struggle for 
liberty, I thank God that heroism is not dead. 

— John L. Doyal 



THE SPANISH- AMERICAN WAR 243 

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 

Braden, James, '01. Field and Staff, One Hundred Fifty-eighth Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Burns, Lee, '93. Company D, One Hundred Fifty-eighth Indiana Vol- 
unteers. 

Carver, James Edwin, '01. Company H, One Hundred Sixtieth Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Curtis, James B., A. B., '80. Captain, Twenty- seventh Battery of Light 
Artillery, Indiana Volunteers. 

English, William E., '74. Captain and Aide-de-Camp on staff of Major- 
General Joseph Wheeler, commanding Cavalry Division, Santiago 
Campaign. 

Hynes, Amos Patterson, '96. Twenty-seventh Battery of Light Artill- 
ery, Indiana Volunteers. 

Julian, Paul, '87. Twenty-seventh Battery of Light Artillery, Indiana 
Volunteers. 

Henderson, Harry Leonard, A. B., '95. Twenty-seventh Battery of 
Light Artillery, Indiana Volunteers. 

Moorhea'd, Robert Lowry, '96. Field and Staff, One Hundred Fifty- 
eighth Indiana Volunteers. 

Mount, Cleon Wade '00. Company I, One Hundred Sixtieth Indiana 
Volunteers. 

New, Harry S., '81. Captain, assigned to Second Brigade, Second Di- 
vision, First Army Corps under Major-General Brookes at Chicka- 
mauga. 

Rinehart, Ernest Robert, '99. Company D, One Hundred Fifty-eighth 
Indiana Volunteers. 

Roberts, Alonzo Swain, A. B. '97. Medical Corps, United States Army. 

Smith, Raymond Abner, A. B. '00. Company A, One Hundred Fifty- 
ninth Indiana Volunteers. 

Thayer, Ira K., '98. Twenty-seventh Battery of Light Artillery, In- 
diana Volunteers. 

Wallace, William, '87. Eleventh Infantry, United States Army. 

Williams, Jesse Benton, '02. Hospital Corps, United States Army. 

Williams, John Sherman, '02. Company H, One Hundred Sixtieth In- 
diana Volunteers. 



CHAPTER VI 

The World War Record 

'Tis God's voice calls: how could I stay? 

— Browning 

Abbett, Hugh W., '10. Enlisted December 12, 1917; assigned to Fourth 
Company, Second Eegiment, Motor Mechanics, A. B. F. ; sailed 
March 4, 1918, reaching France the 14th; served as Master Signal 
Electrician at Tours Aviation Field, March 14, 1918 to April 7, 
1919; discharged April 25, 1919. 

Adams, Gilbert Parker, '17. Enlisted December 15, 1917, Jefferson 
Barracks, Missouri; served as private in Thirty-fourth Company, 
Ninth Battalion, One Hundred Sixtieth Depot Brigade; discharged 
January 23, 1919. 

Adams, Lotjis Philip Mauer, '18. Enlisted March 8, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; served as sergeant first class Ordnance Detachment, Aberdeen, 
Maryland, to November 1, 1918; discharged February 12, 1919. 

Agnew, George E., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Agnevp-, Ralph Leslie, A. B. '18. Enlisted November 4, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Alden, Schuyler G., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Alexander, Harry, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Allen, Fred H., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Alvis, Edmund Ochs, '19. Enlisted December 20, 1917, Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana, for Medical Enlisted Eeserve Corps; 
transferred to Indiana University Students' Army Training Corps, 
October 28, 1918; no active duty. 

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*Amelung, Carl Christian, '18. Enlisted August 5, 1917, ludiannpolis; 
trained Second Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 to November 27; assigned, December 15, to 
Company D, Thirty-eighth Infantry, Third Division, Camp Greene, 
North Carolina; sailed in March, landing in Scotland April 3, 1918; 
sent to training area Arc-en-Barrois ; in April detailed to Second 
Corps School at Chatillon-sur- Seine; in May returned to Company; 
in June ordered to front east of Chateau Thierry; gassed and 
evacuated to Base Hospital No. 30, thence to St. Aignan to First "Re- 
placement Depot ; returned to front until Armistice ; returned to 
United States July, 1919, sent to Base Hospital No. 21 at Denver, 
Colorado; discharged on own request May 1, 1920; died from effects 
of gassing at home in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 31, 1920; buried 
August 2, in Cave Hill cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. 

Amos, Armin Julius, '18. Enlisted August 30, 1918, Camp Sherman, 
Ohio; served as private in Eighth Provisional Battalion and at- 
tached to Clinical Laboratories of Base Hospital, Camp Sherman; 
discharged September 16, 1919. 

Amunson, Malo Marius, A. B. '05. Served during 1918 with Young 
Men 's Christian Association as Hut Secretary at Tours, France, in 
connection with Seventh Division. 

Anderson, Charles Meeks, '19. Enlisted United States Navy, De- 
cember 10, 1917; trained in Cleveland, Ohio, until April, on U. S. S. 
"William A. McGonagle" and at Pelham Bay Training Station* 
promoted Ensign; served as Battery Officer, U. S. S. "Aeolus", 
August, 1918 to January 1919; released January 26, 1919. 

Ankenbrock, William S., '21. Enlisted June 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps October 10 to De- 
cember 23, 1918; discharged August 12, 1920. 

Ankrom, Hershel D., '22. Enlisted in United States Naval Eeserve 
Force, Chicago, July 2, 1918, as apprentice-seaman; reported at 
Great Lakes Training Station for active duty, July 6 ; promoted 
seaman second class; released January 26, 1919. 

Armstrong, Egbert Douglas, '15. Enlisted, after rejection nine times 
for physical disability, June 22, 1918, Indianapolis; served with 
One Hundred Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, Sixth Company; later 
with Medical Detachment, Second Division Battalion, Field Artillery, 
C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; discharged as private candi- 
date November 29, 1918. 

Arnold, Ealph N., '15. Commissioned first lieutenant. Medical Corps, 



246 BUTLER COLLEGE 

September 11, 1917; assigned Metropolitan Hospital, New York; 
served in Base Hospital No. 48, A. E. F., Chateau Thierry; with 
Second Division at St. Mihiel and Ambulance Train, Meuse-Ar- 
gonne; on duty at Nevers, France, January to July, 1919; dis- 
charged July 29, 1919. 

Artis, Lionel Franklin, '19. Enlisted August 22, 1918, Camp Dodge, 
Iowa; attached to Company Sixty-five, One Hundred Sixty-third 
Depot Brigade; assigned to Headquarters Company, Eight Hundred 
Ninth Pioneer Infantry (colored) A. E. F. ; promoted regimental 
sergeant-major; transferred to Headquarters, Ninth Army Corps, 
St. Mihiel; School Detachment University of Beaune, March to 
July; discharged July 12, 1919. 

Atherton, Exjssell, '14. Enlisted July 27, 1917; served in Naval Ex- 
perimental Station, New London, Connecticut ; discharged February 
3, 1919. 

Badger, Everett Hastings, '15. Enlisted August 15, 1917, Indianap- 
olis ; trained Second Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana, August 27 to November 27; commissioned first 
lieutenant, November 27 ; assigned Three Hundred Twenty-seventh 
Field Artillery, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F. ; arrived in France 
September, 1918 and ordered to Le Mans area; promoted captain, 
November 9, 1918; discharged February 20, 1919. 

Badger, Kenneth Eainey, '13. Enlisted August 21, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 to November 27; commissioned first lieutenant, 
November 27; promoted captain, October 1, 1918; assigned Head- 
quarters Company, Third Infantry, Eeplacement Brigade, Camp 
Gordon, Georgia; discharged January 13, 1919. 

Baird, Mont K., '15. Enlisted United States Navy as hospital appren- 
tice, first class, June 6, 1917; promoted to pharmacist's mate, third 
class, December, 1917 ; same grade, second class, February, 1918 ; 
same grade, first class, April, 1918; chief pharmacist's mate, July, 
1918 ; detailed as instructor in Chemistry and Bacteriology in Hos- 
pital Corps Training School, Great Lakes, November, 1917 to Feb- 
ruary, 1919; transferred to English receiving ship for duty at Liv- 
erpool; to duty aboard U. S. S. " Narragansett " in English Chan- 
nel, April, 1919; returned to New York, June 12; discharged 
as chief pharmacist's mate. United States Navy, June 28, 1919. 

Baker, Charles Maxwell, A. B. '19. Enlisted October 2, 1918, In- 
dianapolis ; Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; ap- 
pointed canteen sergeant; discharged December 6, 1918. 



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Baker, Clyde M., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Baker, Enos H., '14. Enlisted October 21, 1918, Akron, Ohio; trained 
Heavy Artillery Officers' Training School, Portress Monroe, Vir- 
ginia; commissioned second lieutenant January 10, 1919; dis- 
charged January 10, 1919. 

Barbre, William Thomas, '15. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Sheridan, 
Indiana; attended Training School for Chaplains, October 4 to No- 
vember 1 ; commissioned first lieutenant November 1, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky; discharged, January 22, 1919. 

Barkley, Leland S., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
10, 1918. 

Barnett, Carl Henry, A. B., '10. Secretary, Young Men's Christian 
Association, Camp Logan, and Ellington Field, Texas, March 7, 1918 
to February 25, 1919. 

Barnett, John Wilbert, A. B., '94. Served overseas September 15, 
1917 to September 8, 1918; four months in London at Eagle Hut 
as assistant building secretary; six months at American Eest Camp, 
Winchester, as religious work secretary, camp secretary and hos- 
pital secretary for the district; two months in special work for 
the Overseas Department in America; September 9, 1918, to June 
30, 1920, director of religious work, receiving ship, Boston, Massa- 
chusetts. 

Barney, Chester Fink, A. B. '21. Enlisted April 9, 1917, Indianap- 
olis, Troop B, First Indiana Cavalry, federalized August 5, and 
designated as Battery F, One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; 
assigned to Headquarters Detachment One Hundred Thirteenth, 
Camp Shelby, Mississippi ; sailed with Thirty-eighth Division 
for France; returned to United States, December 20, 1918; dis- 
charged January 8, 1919. 

Barnhill, Egbert Gunkle, '21. Enlisted September 3, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; assigned Thirty-second Company, Eighth Battalion, One 
Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Barrick, Alfred, '22. Enlisted October 18, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 



248 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Barrick, Milford, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 

6, 1918. 

Bass, Basil Newett, A. B., '20. Enlisted May 11, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; assigned to Forty-first Aero Squad- 
ron, Fifth Pursuit Group, Second Army, A. E. F. ; commissioned 
first lieutenant. Tours, France, May 13, 1918; wounded in two 
aeroplane accidents ; Student Detachment, University of Besancon, 
March 1 to July 1 ; discharged August 13, 1919. 

Batton, Egbert Ralph, '12. Enlisted June 19, 1918, Wabash, Indiana; 
trained Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; com- 
missioned second lieutenant, October 16; promoted to assistant 
adjutant of Observation Area, November 2 ; discharged December 

7, 1918. 

Baus, Walter, '20. Enlisted November 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; appointed mess sergeant ; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

Beamer, Gail Hamilton, '20. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; Ground School of Aeronautics, 
Columbus, Ohio; Desronto, Canada; Kelly Field, Texas; Garden 
City, New York; assigned One Hundred Forty-eighth United States 
Aero Squadron, A. E. F. ; commissioned second lieutenant ; re- 
turned to United States and discharged in August, 1919. 

Beaver, Eoss E., '22. Enlisted October 11, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 16, 
1918. 

Bechtel, Harry P., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged, December 
6, 1918. 

Beck, Arthur E., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Bell, James E., '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged, December 
6, 1918. 

Bell, Egbert F., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 



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Bennett, Loren E., '21. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged, December 
6, 1918. 

Bepler, Ealph Beveridge, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918; Harvard 
University Marine Unit; discharged, December, 1918. 

Beendt, Harry Christian, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; Butler College Students Army Training Corps; discharged, 
December 6, 1918. 

BiDGOOD, Frederick O., '06. Enlisted September 25, 1918, Los Angeles, 
California, in Coast Defense, First Company; transferred to Offi- 
cers ' Training Corps, C. A. C, Fort MacArthur, November 1 ; dis- 
charged December 14, 1918. 

BiLLETT, EusSELL, '20. Government Surveyor, Panama Canal Zone, 
June to August, 1918; Purdue University Students' Army Training 
Corps, October 1 ; discharged, December 19, 1918. 

BiNFORD, Clarence J., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Bingham, Eemster A., '15. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Second Officers' Training Corps, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 to November 27; commissioned first lieutenant, 
November 25 ; jjromoted captain, September 7, 1918 ; assigned to 
Three Hundred Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, Eighty-fourth Division, 
A. E. F. ; arrived in France, September, 1918; ordered to Le Mans 
area; discharged February 1, 1919. 

BiNZER, Edward, '14. Enlisted November 12, 1918; Indiana Univer- 
sity Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Bird, John L., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Bishop, W. Homer, '13. Enlisted in Indiana National Guard federal- 
ized, August 5, 1917; assigned to Company A, Signal Corps; dis- 
charged August 16, 1917, on Surgeon's Certificate Discharge. 

Blackman, Earl T., '11. Served nine months with A. E. F. as chap- 
lain, first lieutenant, One Hundred Thirtieth Field Artillery, Thirty- 
fifth Division; engaged in Vosges Mountains sector, St. Mihiel of- 
fensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive. 

Blair, Eussell B., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
10, 1918. 



250 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Bland, Lottis, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Bloxtnt, Eobley D., '89. Enlisted May 8, 1918, Chicago; attended 
Medical Officers' Training Camp, Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, August 
15 to October 25; commissioned first lieutenant, June 4; discharged 
December 5, 1918. 

Blue, Lloyd NlA-L, '18. Enlisted February 23, 1918, Greenfield, In- 
diana; trained Camp Gordon, Georgia; assigned Sixth Replacement 
Regiment, United States Infantry; discharged, February 23, 1919. 

BODENSICK, Edward H., '17. Enlisted April 27, 1918, Greenfield, In- 
diana; assigned Purdue University Training Detachment, June 20, 
1918; transferred Battery C, Three Hundred Forty-fourth Field 
Artillery, A. E. F. ; overseas July 5, 1918, to June 15, 1919 ; dis- 
charged June 25, 1919. 

BOGAN, Harold W., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Bond, Martin S., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

BoNHAM, Carlos Watkins, '16. With Battery A, First Indiana Field 
Artillery, when commissioned second lieutenant in United States 
Army, June 14, 1917; assigned to Fifteenth Field Artillery; pro- 
moted first lieutenant, July, 1917; sailed for France, December 12; 
entered front lines with Second Division, March 21, 1918 ; promoted 
to captain. May 15; to major, September 2; took part in engage- 
ments of Verdun, Chateau Thierry, Soissons, Toul; wounded June 
5, 1918. 

Received following citation : ' ' Captain C. W. Bonham, Fifteenth 
Field Artillery, on July 2, 1918, at Vaux, France. This officer was 
in an observation post in full view of enemy lines directing the 
fire of his battery on the town of Vaux, when he came under fire of 
a hostile battery. He remained at his post until overcome with 
toxic gas, thus contributing in no small measure to the carrying 
out of the brilliant capture of Vaux on the same date. ' ' 

Received the following second citation : ' ' Captain C. W. Bon- 
ham, Fifteenth Field Artillery, on July 20, 1918, at Vierzy, France. 
He conducted his battery through the town of Vierzy which was 
then being heavily shelled and gassed, and because a road marker 
was killed, Captain Bonham was lost. He immediately set out to 
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by his coolness and zest he soon located his position and rendered 
very timely support to the infantry, thus setting an example of valor 
to his men and saving the day for the troops he was supporting. ' ' 
Avrarded Croix de Guerre. Recommended for Distinguished Service 
Cross. 

BoNHAM, Earl Terence, A. B., '20. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; 
attended First Officers' Training Camp, Tort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant Field 
Artillery, August 15; sailed, September 5; arrived in France, Sep- 
tember 20 ; ordered to Saumur Artillery School and immediately se- 
lected with thirty other officers to report to First Field Artillery 
Brigade (General Peyton C. March commanding) for duty; served 
with Seventh Field Artillery, September 30, 1917, to March 1, 1919; 
first Indianapolis man to fire a shot at the enemy ; in action on 
Luneville front October 20 to November 10, 1917; Toul, January 15 
to April 1, 1918; Picardy, April 7 to July 15; Soissons, July 20 
to 23; Meuse-Argonne, October 15 to November 14; Luxembourg, 
November 20 to December 1 ; Germany, December 1 to March 1, 
1919 ; Student Detachment at University of Nancy, March 1 to 
July 1, 1919; left France for the United States, August 6, 1919; 
arrived August 13; commissioned first lieutenant August 28, 1918; 
discharged August 28, 1919. 

BoNSiB, Ray Myron, '14. Athletic director. Young Men's Christian 
Association; four months in Italy, eight mouths in France; dis- 
charged, August, 1919. 

BoNSiB, Roy Samuel, '10. Served as chief safety engineer for Pa- 
cific coast, 1917-1919. 

Boone, Frank Driver, '20. Enlisted April 22, 1918, Indianapolis, 
hospital apprentice second class; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, 
Illinois, to November 11, 1918; discharged September 9, 1919. 

BoRTON, Hershell L., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Boston, Floyd H., '13. Enlisted August 15, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 to November 27; served first lieutenant Field 
Artillery, O. T. S., Motor School, Camp Taylor, Kentucky. 

Bowman, John Mark, '21. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 16, 1918. 



252 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Boyd, Charles Frederick, '17. Enlisted December 12, 1917, Chicago, 
appointed corporal of Ordnance Department, February 26, 1918: 
promoted sergeant, March 1, 1919; second lieutenant, May 10; 
served in A. E. F. ; Student Detachment at University de Montpelier, 
March 5 to July 1; discharged July 30, 1919. 

Boyd, William Hobart, '19. Enlisted Jun? 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned Supply Company Three Hundred Fifteen, A. E. F. ; took 
part in the offensives of St. Mihiel and of Meuse-Argonne; pro- 
moted sergeant, November 4, 1918; following Armistice, assigned 
Headquarters Advance Section; discharged July 1, 1919. 

Bradford, Ealph L., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Bradley, Clark Howell, '20. Enlisted January, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Camp Colt and Tobyanna, Pennsylvania, March 1 to Sep- 
tember 18, 1918; assigned Company C, Three Hundred Twenty-sixth 
Battalion, Tank Corps, A. E. F. ; discharged June 10, 1919. 

Bradley, Harold Thomas, '14. Enlisted July 28, 1918, El Paso, 
Texas; served as Topographical Draftsman, U. S. N. E. F. ; dis- 
charged January, 1919. 

Bragdon, Benjamin M., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; transferred 
United States General Hospital No. 25, December 24, 1918; dis- 
charged January 11, 1919. 

Brake, George A., '19. Enlisted July 19, 1918; trained Fort Sheri- 
dan Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December, 1918. 

Brayton, John Eichard, '20. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Blooming- 
ton, Indiana ; Indiana University Students ' Army Training Corps : 
discharged December 23, 1918. 

Brp:nneman, Wallace, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Brewer, Eobert Miller, '18. Enlisted May 16, 1918, Camp Dodge, 
Iowa ; trained Fourth Officers ' Training School, Camp Dodge, May 
16 to August 26, 1918; commissioned second lieutenant; assigned 
to Camp Provost Guard, Camp Dodge; discharged March 7, 1919. 

Briles, Ealph H., '19. Enlisted May 31, 1918, Indianapolis; assigned 
Third Ordnance Supply Company, Camp Earitan, New Jersey; pro- 
moted sergeant, September 20, 1918 ; served at Jefferson Barracks, 
Earitan Arsenal, Camp Hancock, Fort Benjamin Harrison, and 
Delaware General Ordnance Supply Depot; discharged March 20, 
1919. 



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Browder, Clifford Harrison, A. B., '12. Enlisted December 12, 1917, 
Chicago; trained Naval Officers' Training Corps, Chicago Pier and 
Pelham Bay Training Station; assigned U. S. S. "Gopher"; pro- 
moted ensign, U. S. N. R. F., September 6, 1918; discharged May 
G, 1919. 

Browder, Newton C, A. B., '16. Enlisted December, 1917, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, for Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; no active duty; 
discharged December, 1918. 

Brown, Archibald A., '20. Enlisted May 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant, 
August 12 (being under age commission withheld) ; appointed drill- 
ing officer Butler College cadets during Spring, 1918; attended 
Eighth Field Artillery, O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, December 4, 1918; discharged as second 
lieutenant, December 4, 1918. 

Brown, Edward Augustus, A. B., '95. Enlisted October 1, 1918; com- 
missioned captain. Medical Corps; served at Camp Greenleaf, 
Georgia; Rockefeller Institute, New York; Base Hospital, Camp 
Sevier, South Carolina; discharged January 28, 1919. 

Brown, Gilbert B., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

*Brown, Hilton U., Jr., '19. Enlisted June, 1916, Indianapolis, in 
Battery A, First Indiana Field Artillery, for service on Mexican 
Border; in May, 1917, transferred to First Officers' Training 
Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison; conmiissioned second lieutenant, 
August, 1917; designated for immediate overseas service; sailed, 
September 7, arriving in France, September 22; ordered to Saumur 
Artillery School; at close of year assigned to Seventh Field Ar- 
tillery, First Division, Toul sector on Lorraine front; May 12, 
wounded, evacuated to Hospital No. 34 for three months ; returned to 
former unit in First Division in time for St. Mihiel drive; went 
through Meuse-Argonne offensive engagements until fell, November 
3, in Argonne forest near village Nouart; buried in American 
Sedan cemetery, near Beaumont. Croix de Guerre posthumously 
awarded with following citation: "Second Lieutenant Hilton U. 
Brown (Deceased), Seventh Field Artillery. Displayed unusual 
courage and devotion to duty during the Argonne-Meuse offensive, 
October 4 to November 3, 1918, both as battery officer and liaison 



254 BUTLER COLLEGE 

officer with the attacking infantry. His utter disregard for per- 
sonal danger was an inspiration to his men and contributed to the 
effectiveness of his detail in maintaining this important communi- 
cation, until killed while laying his guns during heavy shell firo 
on November 3, 1918. By command of Brigadier General Mc- 
Intyre." 

Beown, Roy Lee, '20. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
' First Officers' Training School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 16 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant; assigned 
Battery E, One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Di- 
vision, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas October 18, landing St. Nazaire, 
October 31; trained Camp Coetquidan; sent to front, February 22, 
in Lorraine sector; took part in engagements in Champagne sector: 
Aisne-Marne offensive; St. Mihiel offensive; Meuse-Argonne of- 
fensive; with Army of Occupation; returned to United States, 
April 26; discharged May 10, 1919. 

Browning, Henry Lindsay, A. B. '20. Enlisted March 20, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; attended Central Machine Gun O. T. S., Camp Hancock, 
Georgia; promoted second lieutenant, November 9; placed on inac- 
tive list Officers' Eeserve Corps, November 25, 1918. 

Bruner, Ealph, '21. Enlisted October 31, 1918, Greenfield, Indiana; 
assigned to Sixteenth Observation Battery, Field Artillery, C. O. 
T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Brunson, Austin, '14. Enlisted September 21, 1917, Indianapolis; 
assigned Company K, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth United States 
Infantry, October 4; transferred First Battalion, Company B, 
Twentieth Regiment Engineers, A. E. P., November 12, 1917; re- 
turned to United States, May 19, 1919; discharged May 28, 1919. 

Bryan, Arthur D., '20. Enlisted May 1, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 15 to August 15; appointed corporal, September 1; assigned 
Headquarters Company, One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, 
Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed, October 18, landing at 
St. Nazaire, October 31; trained at Camp Coetquidan; served with 
French in Luneville sector until March 23 ; took part in engagements 
of Champagne, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive; with Army of Occupation; discharged April 24, 
1919. 

Buck, Joseph E., '20. Enlisted June 17, 1918, Indianapolis; served 
in Medical Department, Dental Corps, General Hospital No. 25; dis- 



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charged August 31, 1919. 

Buck, Egbert William, A. B., '15. Enlisted December 17, 1917, Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, for Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; no active 
duty; discharged December 24, 1918. 

BuDD, Clarence L., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; appointed headquarters 
sergeant; discharged December 20, 1918. 

BuDD, Harry F., '17. Enlisted May 21, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 15 to August 15; assigned Battery A, One Hundred Fiftieth 
Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed, October 
18, landing St. Nazaire, October 31; ordered to Saumur Artillery 
School; commissioned second lieutenant. May 15, 1918; transferred 
to Three Hundred First Battalion Heavy Tank Corps, July 2; 
trained Bovington, England ; took part in engagements of Cham- 
pagne, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive ; 
discharged April 7, 1919. 

Bull, Robert Alexander, A. B., '97. Called to active duty January 
24, 1918, as captain Ordnance Department; assigned for arsenal 
and field instruction, preliminary to overseas service; arrived in 
France, May 24; served eight months in Division of Construction 
and Maintenance; returned to United States, February 4; dis- 
charged as major Ordnance Department, February 6, 1919. 

Bunch, Robert Ray, '10. Enlisted July 1, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Officers' Training School, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, September 1 
to November 20; discharged November 23, 1918. 

BuRKHARDT, Carl Alonzo, A. B., '09. Secretary Young Men's 
Christian Association, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1918. 

Burns, Ray L., '18. Enlisted July 24, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana; assigned One Hundred Thirteenth Sanitary Train, Thirty- 
eighth Division, A. E. F. ; appointed corporal, June 15, 1918 ; sailed, 
October 6; served Headquarters, Mesves Hospital Centre; pro- 
moted sergeant, March 17, 1919; discharged July 18, 1919. 

Burbess, Thomas A., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Bush, Henry C, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Chicago; University 
of Chicago Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December, 
1918. 

Byrkett, Oliver D., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 



256 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Caldwell, Braden, '17. Enlisted July 3, 1918, Indianapolis; at- 
tended Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Training Detachment 
No. 2, July 3 to August 14; assigned Truck Company B, Twelfth 
Ammunition Train, Camp McClellan, Alabama; discharged Febru- 
ary 20, 1919. 

Caldwell, Forest E., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Caldwell, Howard Clay, A. B. '15. Enlisted United States Navy, 
July 23, 1918, Indianapolis; attended Great Lakes Training Sta- 
tion, Chicago ; commissioned chief boatswain 's mate, December 1 ; 
promoted ensign, May 9; released May 13, 1919. 

Cale, Harrison, '07. Enlisted May 24, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Paris Island, South Carolina and Quantico, Virginia; served in 
Second Division, Sixth Eegiment, Ninety-sixth Company, United 
States Marines, A. E. F. ; sailed January 21, 1918, landing St. 
Nazaire February 6 ; sent to trenches in sectors of Verdun, Picardy, 
Chateau Thierry, Somme, Soissons; took part in engagements of 
Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, and was one of twenty men who 
held town of Bouresches against 350 Germans; gassed June 14; 
evacuated to Hospital No. 5, Paris, to Vichy for eight months, to Pel- 
ham Bay, New York; discharged April 21, 1919. Awarded Croix 
de Guerre with Palm, with following citation: 

' ' CITED IN AEMY OEDEES 
The Fourth American Brigade, under command of Brigadier- Gen- 
eral James G. Harbord, composed of The Fifth Eegulars of Marines, 
under command of Col. Wendell C. Nevill; The Sixth Eegulars of 
Marines under command of Col. Albertus W. Catlin; The Sixth 
Machine Gun Battalion under command of Major Edward W. Cole; 
was thrown in full battle on a front violently attacked by the 
enemy. Immediately asserted itself as a unit of first order. On 
its very entry on the fighting line, broke down, together with the 
French troops, a violent attack by the enemy on an important part 
of the position, and began, on its own account, a series of offensive 
operations. During the course of these operations, thanks to the 
brilliant courage, the vigor, spirit and tenacity of its men who over- 
came all hardships and losses; thanks to the activity and energy of 



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its officers; and thanks also to the personal action of its chief, 
General J. Harbord, the Fourth Brigade found its efforts crowned 
with success. In well-ordinated action its two regiments and ma- 
chine gun battalion realized, after twelve days of incessant fight- 
ing (from the 2nd of June to the 13th of June, 1918) on a very 
difficult terrain, an advance varying from 1200 to 2000 metres, on 
a front of four kilometres, capturing a large amount of material, 
taking more than 500 prisoners, inflicting on the enemy consider- 
able losses, and capturing two objectives of first importance: the 
village of Bouresches and Belleau Wood. 
(Order No. 10805 "D") 
At Great General Headquarters, October 22, 1918. The com- 
manding general-in-chief Petain. ' ' 

Campbell, Dudley, '21. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Campbell, Edward D., '22. Enlisted July 27, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and Camp Shelby, Missis- 
sippi; served with Headquarters Company, One Hundred Fifty-first 
Infantry; transferred Camp Hancock, Georgia; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Campbell, Eoy M., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Campbell, Ted M., '24. Enlisted March 17, 1918, Camp Shelby, Mis- 
isissippi; trained. Camp Upton, New York; served in One Hundred 
Thirty-ninth Field Artillery Band, A. E. F. ; discharged, January 
22, 1919. 

Cabr, Arthur Noah, '18. Enlisted May 7, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, First Officers ' Training Camp, 
May 15 to August 15; Camp Shelby, Mississippi, September 15, 1917 
to September 7, 1918 ; served with One Hundred Thirteenth Regi- 
ment, Engineer Corps, Thirty-eighth Division, A. E. F. ; promoted 
corporal, October 17, 1918; discharged June 25, 1919. 

*Carson, Conwell Burnside, '15. Enlisted June 24, 1918, Shelbyville, 
Indiana ; trained Camp Sherman, Ohio ; assigned to Nineteenth 
Company, Training Battery, One Hundred Fiftieth Depot Brigade 
to July 20 ; Headquarters Company to September 7 ; adjutant De- 
tachment Camp Headquarters to October 5; died of influenza, 
October 5, 1918, Camp Sherman ; buried at Boggstown, Indiana. 



258 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Carver, William J., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Carter, Floyd E., '18. Enlisted December 27, 1917, Indianapolis, for 
Medical Enlisted Eeserve Corps; transferred, October 28, 1918, to 
Indiana University Students' Army Training Corps; no active 
duty. 

Case, Perry, A. B., '14. Enlisted Plattsburg, New York, July, 1918; 
trained Plattsburg Eeserve Officers' Training Camp, July 18 to 
August 18; Young Men's Christian Association secretary for Stud- 
ents ' Army Training Corps, Camp Wilson, North Carolina ; dis- 
charged August 22, 1918. 

Casey, Wilbur A. Thirty-fourth Company, Field Artillery, C. O. T. S., 
Camp Gordon, Georgia. 

Casey, William Anson, '15. Enlisted August 6, 1918, Fort Thomas, 
Kentucky; attended C. O. T. S. Camp Gordon, Georgia. October 20 
to December 10; discharged December 10, 1918. 

Cassady, Chase Eugene, '15. Enlisted May 8, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; transferred to Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky, Camp Shelby, Mississippi and Camp Lee, Virginia; com- 
missioned first lieutenant. Aviation Department; stationed at 
Mineola, Langley and Boiling Aviation Fields; discharged July 
1, 1919. 

Gates, Arthur, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 10, 
1918. 

Cates, Harold E., '19. Enlisted April 28, 1917, Chicago, Company B, 
First Illinois Engineers, Illinois National Guard; organization 
federalized August 5 and later designated Company B, One 
Hundred Eighth Engineers, Thirty-third Division; trained, Camp 
Logan, Texas, September 7, 1917 to March 28, 1918; sailed over- 
seas, May 8, landing Brest, France, May 18; arrived Somme defen- 
sive sector, May 25 ; on this line with British and Australian troops 
chiefly in front of Albert, Amiens, Hamel; in rest area, August 18 
to September 11 ; entered St. Mihiel drive with French Army on 
extreme left; on night of September 23, relieved French on Cote le 
Morte Homme and went into Argonne drive on extreme right of 
American line; relieved October 22, and went into offensive 
sector of Troyon-sur-Meuse, where stationed at time of Armistice; 



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two weeks later started into Germany, called back to Echternaek, 
Luxembourg; here until March 1, Avhen assigned to British Uni- 
versity School Detachment; detailed to Birmingham University 
from middle of March to July 5; sailed from Brest, July 18; dis- 
charged at New York, July 30, 1919. 

Cavins, Alexander Weinstein, A. B., '21. Enlisted July 18, 1918, Fort 
Sheridan, Illinois; Fort Sheridan Students' Army Training Corps, 
July 18 to September 16; commissioned second lieutenant, Septem- 
ber 16; transferred to Iowa University Students' Army Training 
Corps ; discharged, January 3, 1919. 

Chamfer, Herman E., '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Chapman, Edwakd C, '22. Enlisted October 21, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Christian, Paul Durbin, '08. Enlisted August 1, 1918, Washington, 

D. C. ; trained at Gettysburg and Tobyanna, Pennsylvania; as- 
signed to Three Hundred Thirty-second Battalion, Tank Corps, A. 

E. F. ; sailed, September 26, arriving in France, October 12; trained 
at Langres; transferred, February 19, 1919 to Motor Transport 
Corps in Base Section No. 2 ; promoted sergeant ; sailed from 
Bordeaux, June 7 ; discharged June 23, 1919. 

CiiiiiSTiAN, Thomas Loe, '17. Enlisted August 26, 1918, Lebanon, In- 
diana; trained at Camp Custer, Michigan, August 26 to October 
26; served with Thirty-third Service Company, Signal Corps, A. 
E. F.; discharged July 18, 1919. 

Christie, Donald E., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Christina, Howard G., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Clapp, Climpson Moore, '20. Enlisted June 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; assigned Mechanical Eepair 
Unit 315; discharged September 16, 1919. 

Clarke, Armstrong Brandon, A. B., '97. Enlisted July 19, 1918, 
Washington, D. C. ; trained at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida ; 
commissioned first lieutenant, July 19, 1918; assigned in A. E. F. 
Quartermaster Corps as officer in charge. Camp a la Tambourine, 
St. Dizicr, Haute Marne; discharged February 16, 1919. 



260 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Clarke, Clarence Hubert, '16. Enlisted April 26, 1918, Shelbyville, 
Indiana; trained Fort Sheridan, Alabama; served with Motor 
Transport Corps, One Hundred Twelfth Supply Train, Thirty-sev- 
enth Division, A. E. F. ; participated in engagements in Baccarat 
sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Argonne offensive, and in Belgium, near 
Ypres; returned to United States, April 1, 1919; discharged April 
11, 1919. 

Clarke, Elbert Hovfard, A. B., '09. Enlisted July 18, 1918; trained, 
Students' Army Training Corps, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, July 18 
to September 3 ; discharged September 3, 1918. 

Clarke, Elton Eussell, A. B., '15. Enlisted March 3, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; assigned to Medical Corps, School Military Aeronautics, 
University of California; discharged June 11, 1919. 

Clarke, Ira D., A. B., '12. Enlisted April 15, 1918; assigned Chemical 
Warfare Service, Camp Meade, Maryland; discharged January 15, 
1919. 

Clarke, Eoger T., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Clement, Coleman, '20. Enlisted May 15, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained. First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; assigned Battery E, One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed for 
France, October 18, landing St. Nazaire, October 31; trained 
Camp Coetquidan; sent to front in Lorraine sector, February 22; 
attended Saumur Artillery School, August 1 to October 20, 1918, 
■ where commissioned first lieutenant; took part in engagements of 
Champagne, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, Meuse- Argonne ; trans- 
ferred to Battery E, Eighteenth Field Artillery, Third Division; 
with Army of Occupation; discharged April 7, 1919. 

Clifford, Austin Vincent, A. B., '17. Enlisted June, 1917, Indi- 
anapolis; commissioned second lieutenant. United States Army, 
September, 1917; trained, Fort Leavenworth, November, 1917 to 
January, 1918; assigned, Fourteenth Field Artillery, Fort Sill, 
Oklahoma; promoted first lieutenant, June 1, 1918; resigned .com- 
mission March, 1919. 
Cobbet, Charles E., '08. Secretary, Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation, Italy, 1918. 
Cobbey, Jean, '09. Enlisted June, 1917, Omaha, Nebraska; trained 
School Military Aeronautics, Austin, Texas; commissioned second 



IN THE WORLD WAR 261 

lieutenant, May 11, 1918; promoted to reserve military director, 
November 11; to first lieutenant chaplain Air Service Aviation. 

COFIELD, Denver B., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 20, 1918. 

Cohen, Joseph L., '21. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed medical ser- 
geant; discharged December 20, 1918. 

Colbert, Eaymond P. Enlisted United States Marine Corps, May 16, 
1918, Indianapolis; trained, Paris Island, South Carolina and 
Quantico, Virginia; assigned Company B, Fifth Separate Battalion; 
sailed, August 18, landing at Brest, August 26; assigned Seventy- 
eighth Company, Sixth Regiment, Second Division; took part in 
action at St. Mihiel and Champagne; wounded, October 3, evacuated 
to Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Paris, until November 8 ; transferred to 
Base Hospital No. 85 until December 8 ; sent to replacement camp at 
Porgny; joined •with own Company, Army of Occupation; in May, 
assigned to Third Army Composite Regiment — "Pershing's Honor 
Guard" — to Coblenz, and with it marched in Victory parade in 
Paris, July 14 ; in London, July 19 ; sailed with it from Brest, 
September 2, on U. S. S. " Leviathan, ' ' arrived September 8 ; with 
it paraded New York, September 10, Washington, September 17; 
discharged September 25, 1919. 

Cole, John W., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 16, 
1918. 

Collins, William H., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Comely, Elmer Lee, '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

CONOVER, Clark S., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Conway, William Oakley, '13. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harri- 
son, Indiana, May 15 to August 15; served at Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky, as second lieutenant of Three Hundred Thirty-fifth Infantry 
for one year when resigned to join Canadian Expeditionary Force; 



262 BUTLER COLLEGE 

sailed from Canada July 6, 1918, promoted sergeant-major; wounded 
in France, evacuated to hospital in England; after recovery of eye- 
sight, remained as instructor in Khaki College, C. E. F., for six 
months ; discharged from Princess Patricia 's Canadian Light In- 
fantry at New London, Ontario, June 26, 1919. 

Conrad, Harold T., '23. Enlisted Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Drill 
Company, United States Marines, August 25, 1918; served overseas 
in Fifth Brigade, Sixty-sixth Marine Guard and Eleventh Eegi- 
ment; discharged August 11, 1919. 

Cook, Donald F., '22. Enlisted October 21, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Cook, George M., '17. Enlisted December 15, 1917, Indianapolis; com- 
missioned first lieutenant, December 15, 1917, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana; assigned Base Hospital No. 120, Medical Corps, A. 
E. F.; discharged June 25, 1919. 

Cook, Herman H., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Cook, Ealph L., '19. Enlisted April 3, 1917, Indianapolis; trained, 
First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 15 to August 15; assigned Battery E, One Hundred Fiftieth 
Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; trained at Camp 
Coetquidan and with French at Luneville until March 23 ; held 
Baccarat sector 110 days; took part in engagements of Champagne, 
Chateau Thierry, Saint Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne offensive ; with 
Army of Occupation; discharged April 7, 1919. 

COOLBT, William E., '17. Enlisted December 13, 1917, Fort Thomas, 
Kentucky; trained Camp Hancock, Georgia; served with Third 
Company, Second Air Service Mechanic Eegiment, A. E. F. ; ar- 
rived in France, March, 1918; discharged June 23, 1919. 

CoppocK, Orville D. McClelland, '11. Enlisted May 20, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; attended C. O. T. S., Camp Grant, Illinois; assigned 
Company E, Thirty-sixth Infantry, Twelfth Division; discharged 
December 4, 1918. 

Cornelius, George Hopper, '19. Enlisted April 6, 1917, Indianapolis; 
attended First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; assigned Battery E, One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed over- 
seas October 18, landing at St. Nazaire, October 31; ordered to 



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Baccarat sector on Lorraine front; detailed to Sauniur Artillery 
School August 1 to October 20, 1918, where commissioned first lieu- 
tenant; transferred Battery E, Eighteenth Field Artillery, Third 
division; engaged in defensive operations in Lorraine sector, Cham- 
pagne sector and Marne sector ; offensive operations of Aisne-Marne 
and Meuse-Argonne; with Army of Occupation; discharged Sep- 
tember 9, 1919. 

COEY, Harmon E., '17. Enlisted February 5, 1918, Washington, D. C; 
assigned to Chemical Warfare Service, Camp Kendrick, New Jer- 
sey; promoted sergeant; discharged November 30, 1918. 

Cotton, Irwin Wright, '08. Enlisted June 4, 1918, Municipal Pier, 
Chicago ; attended Steam Engineering School, Hoboken, New Jer- 
sey ; commissioned, December 23, Warrant Machinist ; promoted 
ensign, March 13 ; released July 7, 1919. 

Crandall, Joseph E., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Crozier, Frank Craven, '20. Enlisted March 20, 1918, Indianapolis; 
attended Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; com- 
missioned second lieutenant, September, 1918; discharged Decem- 
(ber 20, 1918. 

Curry, Walker T., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Dalton, Charles Test, A. B. '96. Served for eighteen months in 
Quartermaster Corps; assigned to Fifteenth Division as aide-de- 
camp to General Guy V. Henry, Camp Logan, Texas; transferred to 
Marine Corps, Third Provisional Brigade, Galveston, Texas; 
to Third Section Eighth Naval District under Commandant Neville. 

Daniels, Elvin, A. B. '14. Secretary Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, A. E. F., May, 1918 to November, 1918; assigned to Gondre- 
court area; participated in engagements of Chateau Thierry and 
Saint Mihiel. 

Daniels, Fred, A. B. '19. With Battery E, First Indiana Field Ar- 
tillery, when mustered into Federal service, August 5, 1917, and 
later designated One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second 
Division, A. E. F. ; trained Fort Benjamin Harrison in First Offi- 
cers' Training Corps May 15 to August 15; sailed with Division, 
October 18, landing at St. Nazaire, October 31; received artillery 
training at Camp Coetquidan; promoted sergeant, December 1; 



264 BUTLER COLLEGE 

ordered to active front in Lorraine sector, February 22, 1918; 
Champagne front July 4, 1918; Chateau Thierry July 28 to August 
9 ; took position in Toul sector ; went through Saint Mihicl offensive, 
holding line until October 1; direct to Meuse-Argonne offensive; 
wounded in action October 28 and evacuated to hospitals No. 
114, No. 67, and No. 69 ; landed in United States on Hospital 
Ship "Princess Matoika" at Hampden, Virginia, February 11, Hos- 
pital No. 51 debarkation; transferred to Fort Sheridan Hospital; 
discharged April 24, 1919. 

Daniels, Harry H., '12. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Davenport, John Morrison, '18. Enlisted United States Navy, Decem- 
ber 15, 1917, Indianapolis; attended Great Lakes Naval Station, 
March to May; Hampton Roads, May to June, 1918; promoted to 
second class seaman June 1, to hospital apprentice first class, No- 
vember 1, 1918; discharged March 12, 1919. 

Davis, Charles Bushnell, '08. Enlisted October 22, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; trained. Camp Humphreys and Camp Kendrick, New Jersey; 
assigned to Chemical Warfare Service; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant, October 22; discharged December 7, 1918. 

Davis, Chester B., A. B., '18. Enlisted September 9, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; attended Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, 
September 9 to November 26; discharged November 26, 1918. 

Davis, Leslie Martz, '18. Enlisted November 14, 1917; trained at 
Fort Thomas, Kentucky and at Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida; 
sailed from Newport News, June 15, 1918 ; assigned to Supply Depot 
at Gievres, France, where worked until June, 1919 ; promoted to 
corporal; discharged July 15, 1919, 

Davis, Etjssell, '21. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Deal, Harold C, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Deitch, Victor, '21. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed duty sergeant; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

Denk, Andrew Lavtrence, '15. Enlisted April 14, 1917, Greenfield, 
Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin 



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Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to August 15; assigned One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed 
October 18, landing St. Nazaire October 31; trained Camp Coet- 
quidan; sent to front in Lorraine sector February 22, 1918; took 
part in engagements of Champagne, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne offensive; with Army of Occupation; returned to 
United States in April, 1919; discharged May 10, 1919. 

Dessauer, Lee K., '20. Enlisted in United States Marine Corps, Three 
Hundred Eighty-first Company, June 28, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained, Paris Island, South Carolina, June 18 to August 18; ap- 
pointed corporal; discharged April 4, 1919. 

Dickson, Georce M., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

DoELKER, Jacob Fred, '20. Enlisted April 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; assigned Fourth Eegiment, Field 
Artillery Eeplacement Corps, Camp Jackson, South Carolina; dis- 
charged December 26, 1918. 

Doeppers, William August, '12. Enlisted May 19, 1917, Indianapolis; 
attended First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
May 15 to August 15 ; commissioned second lieutenant, May 19, 
1917; assigned to Medical Corps, Base Hospital No. 101, A. E. F. ; 
discharged May 9, 1919. 

DoRSEY, Egbert Layman, A. B., '83. Enlisted February 26, 1918, In- 
dianapolis ; assigned Company B, Second Eegiment, Indiana State 
Militia; discharged February 10, 1919. 

Doudican, Frank J., '09. Enlisted July 22, 1918, Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky; attended Field Artillery, C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky; commissioned second lieutenant December 21, 1918; dis- 
charged December 22, 1918. 

Douglas, Theodore W., '18. Enlisted United States Navy, May 7, 1918, 
Cincinnati, Ohio; attended Great Lakes Naval Station, Municipal 
Pier School, Chicago, and Pelham Bay Material School; promoted to 
ensign in Naval Eeserve Forces; not released. 

Downs, Marie. January 2, 1919, sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, to open a 
craft shop for the wounded and to start occupational therapy in 
hospital wards; transferred, in May, to Fort Sheridan, Illinois; in 
August, to Oteen, North Carolina; discharged November 17, 1920. 

Doyle, Patrick J., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 



266 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Drake, Charles W., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1908. 

DuGRANRUT, EussELL, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

DxTNN, Everett H., '22. Enlisted October 11, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

DuRMAN, Donald Charles, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; Indiana University Students' Army Training Corps; promoted 
to sergeant; discharged December 21, 1918. 

Duvalle, Sylvester Howard, A. B., '12. Enlisted August 1, 1918, 
Nashville, Tennessee ; Fisk University Students ' Army Training 
Corps; promoted personnel clerk; discharged December 21, 1918. 

Eaton, Vernet Eller, '21. Enlisted September 21, 1917, Indianapolis; 
assigned Company F, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry; trans- 
ferred Company L, One Hundred Thirtieth Infantry, A. E. F. ; 
sailed overseas May 16, 1918; returned to United States May 20, 
1919; engaged in Somme offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive, in 
minor operations of Bois de Chaume, and the Woevre; discharged 
May 29, 1919. 

Edkins, Thomas R., '22. Enlisted October 16, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Edwards, Scott Egbert, '09. Enlisted August 4, 1917, Indianapolis; 
commissioned First Lieutenant, Medical Eeserve Corps, August 6; 
reported for active duty at Eockefeller Institute, New York, August 
17 ; assigned Base Hospital No. 32, A. E. F. ; discharged January 23, 
1919. 

Ehrensperger, Harold Adam, '19. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; trained, Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky; promoted sergeant-major, November 1, 1918; discharged 
December 5, 1918. 

Ehrsman, Ealph, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
4, 1918. 

EiCHACKER, Homer, '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 



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ElCHELSDOERFER, KoBERT M., '19. Enlisted April, 1917; trained, 
First Officers' Training Camp, Tort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant, August 15; 
assigned Twenty-fourth United States Cavalry (Eighty-second 
Field Artillery), A. E. F. ; served with Ninetieth Division, First Di- 
vision, Fourth Division; promoted first lieutenant, September 8, 
1919; gassed October 18, 1918; took part in engagements of Saizer- 
ais sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sedan; 
detailed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General F. C. Marshall, Febru- 
ary 8, 1918 to March 20, 1920; with Army of Occupation. Awarded 
the Distinguished Service Cross accompanied with following cita- 
tion: "For distinguished gallantry and bravery in making a most 
hazardous reconnoissance of the enemy positions along the Meuse 
River between the bend north of Lctanne and Villemontry, and in 
securing a valuable report on those positions while under constant 
observation and fire of the enemy during the operation of the 
First Division near Mouzon, Ardennes, November 6, 1918." 
Awarded G. H. Q. citation, First Division citation, Second In- 
fantry Brigade citation, and recommended for Croix de Guerre. 

Eldridge, Luther O., '08. Enlisted Spring, 1918; trained, Camp 
Lewis, Washington; assigned Three Hundred Sixty-second Regiment, 
United States Infantry, Ninety-first Division, A. E. F. ; arrived in 
France, July, 1918 ; took part in offensives of Saint Mihiel and 
Meuse-Argonne; wounded in Argonne forest; selected from regi- 
ment to take part in triumphal entry into Brussels; discharged 
May, 1919. 

*Elliott, Kenneth Victor, '20. Enlisted May 15, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant; 
transferred to Camp Colt, Pennsylvania, to Camp Greene, North 
Carolina, to Fort Sill, Oklahoma ; assigned Machine Gun Battalion, 
Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division, A. E. F. ; sailed June, 1918; 
sent for training to Saumur Artillery School ; promoted first lieu- 
tenant, United States Army, June 20; wounded at Chateau Thierry, 
August 7; died at Base Hospital No. 23, August 31; buried, Sep- 
tember 2, at Vittel, France, in American cemetery No. 258, grave 
No. 223. 

Emeich, Chakles H. Harvey, '07. Enlisted May, 1917, Newark, New 
Jersey; trained Camp McClellan, Alabama; commissioned second 
lieutenant ; assigned to Headquarters Company, Fifty-fourth Field 
Artillery Brigade, A. E. F. ; sailed with Twenty-ninth Division, 
June, 1918; promoted first lieutenant; discharged July, 1919. 



268 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Engledow, Clem E., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Ent, Everett, '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

EvERSON, Clarence J., '16. Enlisted May 4, 1917, Indianapolis; 
served with Company C, Five Hundred Twenty-eighth Engineers, 
A. E. F. ; commissioned second lieutenant. 

Fairburn, Vernon C, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 16, 1918. 

Felt, Mable M., A. B. '15. Appointed by National War Work Council 
of Young Women's Christian Association for service in France; 
sailed, April 17, 1920; located, Paris, Southern France and Italy; 
after nineteen months reconstruction work, returned to United States 
November 8, 1921. 

Felton, Norman, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Ferree, John, '18. Enlisted June 10, 1917, Camp Knox, Kentucky; 
assigned Headquarters Company, Three Hundred Twenty-seventh 
Field Artillery, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F. ; detailed to Motor 
Transport Corps; discharged March 10, 1919. 

Ferris, Edwin M., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
16, 1918. 

Fessler, Maurice S., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; transferred to 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, November 19, 1918. 

Fields, Thomas B., '22. Enlisted October 12, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

FiERS, Forest Leland, '14. Enlisted August 13, 1914, Indianapolis, 
in Company A, First Indiana Infantry; June 19, 1916, transferred 
to Mexican Border; May 5, 1917, appointed sergeant. Company A, 
First Indiana Infantry, federalized August 5 and designated One 
Hundred Fifty-first United States Infantry; transferred to Camp 
Shelby, Mississippi, September 26; detailed sergeant Quartermas- 
ter's Corps Detachment, January 22, 1918; discharged February 
15, 1919. 



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FiNDLEY, Glenn Franklin, '19. Enlisted June 27, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Camp Taylor, Kentucky; instructor in Motor School; as- 
signed Third Regiment, Field Artillery; promoted sergeant, Decem- 
ber 13 ; discharged January 10, 1919. 

Fink, Shirl L., '19. Enlisted Mny 28, 1918, Russellville, Indiana; 
assigned One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade to November 29, 
1918 ; appointed corporal to Quartermaster Corps, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky; discharged April 5, 1919. 

Finn, John R., '14. Enlisted September 5, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Camp 
Greene, South Carolina; assigned Chemical Warfare Service, Thirty- 
second Division, A. E. F. ; promoted captain, September 1, 1918; 
discharged May 15, 1919. 

Finney, Paul W., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Fischer, Hugo, '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Fiscus, Charles G., '22. Enlisted October 28, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Flatter, Adam H., A. B., '20. Enlisted March 29, 1918, Winchester. 
Indiana; trained, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and Camp Bouregard, 
Louisiana; assigned as corporal to Company G, One Hundred Fifty- 
fifth Infantry, Thirty-ninth Division, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas, 
August 23; stationed at St. Aignan, Bourges, Paris, as member of 
Military Postal Express Service; carried mail to Metz, Luxembourg, 
Coblenz; discharged July 15, 1919. 

Fleck, Leslie Elmer, '20. Enlisted February 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned to Ordnance Engineering Division, A. E. F. ; discharged 
May 23, 1919. 

Fleece, Verner B., '09. Enlisted July, 1918, Indianapolis; assigned 
Fifteenth Regiment, United States Marine Corps; discharged Jan 
uary 13, 1919. 

Foley, Harry, '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 

FOLLiCK, Frederick Charles, '18. Served United States Naval Air 
Station, San Diego, California. 

Folz, Clifford, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 



270 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Forbes, Benjamin Franklin, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Lafayette, 
Indiana; Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 19, 1918. 

Foster, Fred Hershal, '19. Enlisted April 14, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, September, 1917 to May, 1918; 
transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, May, 1918 to August, 1918; 
to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, August, 1918 to March, 1919; commissioned 
first lieutenant, United States Army, August 31, 1918; acting cap- 
tain in command Battery C, Fourteenth Field Artillery November, 
1918 to February, 1919; discharged March 1, 1919. 

Foster, Herman M., '17. Enlisted August 15, 1918, New Orleans, 
Louisiana; trained Tulane University Training Detachment; Radio 
School, Fortress Monroe, Virginia and Camp Beauregard, Louisiana; 
discharged December 19, 1918. 

Foster, Eobert Sanford, '97. Field director, American Red Cross, 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, March to December, 1918; trans- 
ferred to Camp Sherman, Ohio, January, 1919 ; discharged June 1, 
1919. 

Foster, Tony E., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Fowler, Byron, '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Fox, Fred E., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Freeman, Lawrence Emory, '07. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, August 27 to November 27; commissioned second lieutenant 
November, 1917; assigned to Signal Corps Telephone Department, 
A. E. F. ; promoted to chief officer at Cherbourg, France; dis- 
charged as Captain Signal Corps April 15, 1919. 

Frick, Julius N., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Fross, George H., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

^Fuller, Dean Weston, '18. Enlisted April 14, 1917, Indianapolis, 



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in Troop B, Indiana Cavalry, federalized August 5, and 
designated Battery F, One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; 
as corporal transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi September 26; 
sailed overseas with Thirty-eighth Division October 6, 1918, landing 
at Liverpool the 18th, reaching rest area at Ploermel ievf days later; 
trained at Camp de Meucon; sailed homeward from Brest December 
14, landed at Hoboken the 23d, at Fort Benjamin Harrison January 
6, 1919; too ill for discharge detailed to Base Hospital until July, 
when discharged at own request; died in Base Hospital, Palo Alto, 
California July 6, 1920; buried in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianap- 
olis. 

Gardner, Vernon, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918; Wabash College 
Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December, 1918. 

Garner, Herman P., '15. Enlisted November 29, 1917, Fort Thomas, 
Kentucky; trained Kelly Field, Texas; assigned Six Hundred 
Eighty-third Aero Squadron, Air Service; promoted corporal Jan- 
uary 1, 1919; discharged February 4, 1919. 

Garner, Howard, '19. Enlisted April, 1917, Indianapolis, in Field Hos- 
pital No. 1, Indiana National Guard, federalized August 5 and desig- 
nated as One Hundred Forty-ninth Field Hospital; trained Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to August 15 ; transferred to 
Camp Shelby, Mississippi, August 25, where trained to September 
17, 1918. 

Garvin, Seaborn Clayton, '20. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis; 
transferred Camp Shelby, Mississippi, August 25 ; to Field Artillery 
C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, September 19, 1918; dis- 
charged November 28, 1918. 

Gavin, Eaymond, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

George, Eichard J., '14. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Second Officers ' Training Gamp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 to November 27; commissioned captain Coast 
Artillery Corps, Fortress Monroe, Virginia, November; served with 
Fifty-ninth Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps, A. E. F. ; sailed over- 
seas March 26, 1918; engaged in St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive ; discharged December 23, 1919. 

Gerlach, Calvin, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Gift, Weldon A., '19. Enlisted December 20, 1917, Indianapolis, for 
Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; transferred, October 28, 1918, to 
Indiana Medical College Students' Army Training Corps; no active 
duty. 



272 BUTLER COLLEGE 

GiLLMAN, Waide Ernest, '18. Enlisted United States Navy June 13, 
1918, Indianapolis; trained Municipal Pier, Chicago, Illinois, August 
to October ; promoted Quartermaster second class October 1 ; dis- 
charged December 13, 1918. 

GiVENS, WiLLAED Eael, '12. Served with Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation; assigned Mare Island Naval Training Camp as educational 
director; to Hawaii as district educational director; discharged 
September 1, 1919. 

Glasgow, Elmer Clifton, '18. Enlisted August, 1918; trained Camp 
Custer, Michigan; discharged January, 1919. 

Goll, John A., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; appointed headquarters 
sergeant; discharged December 20, 1918. 

Gommell, Dewey, '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

GONGWER, Elton Andrews, A. B. '88. Enlisted July 17, 1917, Bar- 
croft, Virginia; commissioned first lieutenant, promoted captain 
Ordnance Department, A. E. F. ; discharged January 25, 1919. 

Good, Edgar, '19. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; trained Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, Indiana First Officers' Training Camp, May 
15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant August 15; 
served with One Hundred Fiftieth Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division, 
A. E. F. ; promoted first lieutenant April, 1918. 

*Good, John Charles, A. B., '17. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana, August 27 to November 27 ; commissioned second 
lieutenant; assigned Company C, Three Hundred Thirty- ninth Field 
Artillery; died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, March 30, 1918; 
buried at Ebenezer Lutheran cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Goodnight, George D., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Goodnight, Herbert L., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Goodwin, Walter E., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Glendenning, George S., '14. Enlisted August 30, 1918, Indianapolis; 



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trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; assigned Eighth Com- 
pany, Second Training Battalion, One Hundred Fifty-eighth Depot 
Brigade; promoted to sergeant; discharged June 22, 1919. 

Glendenning, John Lincoln, '15. Enlisted June 25, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; trained Camp Meade, Maryland and Camp Eustis, Virginia; 
assigned Medical Corps, Field Hospital No. 4, A. E. F., Siberia; dis- 
charged May 6, 1920. 

Glenn, William J. B., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

GOE, Percy F., '13. Enlisted May 1, 1918, Washington, D. C. ; as- 
signed Company A, Four Hundred Thirty-seventh Engineers ' De- 
tachment Engineers' Corps; promoted to sergeant December, 1918; 
discharged February 14, 1919. Died from effects of service May 9, 
1921, at his home in Irvington and buried in Crown Hill cemetery, 
Indianapolis. 

Gordon, Charles C, '15. Enlisted September 21, 1917 ; trained Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky, as member of Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Ma- 
chine Gun Company; transferred to Quartermaster Corps in Octo- 
ber; in July, 1918, detailed to assist officer in charge of purchas- 
ing land for Camp Knox, Kentucky; promoted to sergeant first 
class in October, 1918; discharged January 13, 1919. 

Gore, George W., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Gosnell, Paul D., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Goth, Charles E., '20. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Graber, Willard, '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Grabhorn, Kobert a., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Graham, Errett McLoed, B. S. '98. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Fort Leavenworth, 
Kansas, May to July; commissioned first lieutenant July, 1917; 



274 BUTLER COLLEGE 

promoted captain August, 1917; assigned One Hundred Thirteenth 
Engineers; discharged February, 1919. 

Gkay, Charles Edwin, '16. Enlisted Indianapolis, July 6, 1917, In- 
diana National Guard; assigned to Machine Gun Company, First 
Infantry, National Guard, designated Machine Gun Company, One 
Hundred Fifty-first Infantry; transferred August 31, 1918, Field 
Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Hancock, Georgia; appointed corporal 
November 2, 1917, sergeant June 15, 1918; discharged November 
26, 1918. 

Gregg, Dewey M., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Griffey, Harvey F., '05. Enlisted September 27, 1918, Greenfield, In- 
diana; served in Twenty-sixth Eecount Company, General Service 
Infantry; discharged December 5, 1918. 

Griffith, Elmer Leon, '18. Secretary Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation, with United States Marines in Cuba January 28, 1918 to 
September 1, 1919. 

Grisso, Ralph. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Lafayette, Indiana; Purdue 
University Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
19, 1918. 

Graves, Orville M., '19. Enlisted December 28, 1917, Indianapolis, for 
Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; transferred October 28, 1918 to 
Indiana University Students' Army Reserve Corps; no active duty. 

Grubb, Stanley R., A. B. '99. Served eight months at Camp Greene, 
North Carolina and Camp Jackson, South Carolina, as secretary 
Young Men's Christian Association. 

GuEDEL, Claeence Eroyden, '15. Commissioned first lieutenant Dental 
Corps September 11, 1918; reported for active duty at Camp Mc- 
Clellan, Alabama September 27; discharged January 27, 1919. 

GwARTNEY, Barsh Ernest, '20. Enlisted United States Navy June 
26, 1918, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois, 
July 9 to September 20; assigned U. S. S. "Keresaspa" as third 
class fireman; released January 29, 1919. 

GwiNN, Floyd C, '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

GwiNN, Paul C, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 275 

Habbe, John Edwin, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; In- 
diana University Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Hadden, Claude E., '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Bloomington, In- 
diana; Indiana University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Hacker, William Eldridge, A. B., '16. Enlisted United States Marines 
March 11, 1918, Camp Greene, North Carolina; assigned Com- 
pany B, Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, Fourth Division, A. 
E, F., sailed May 7, arriving Calais May 16; took part in 
Aisne-Marne offensive July 15 to August 7 ; wounded August 7 at 
Vesle Eiver; promoted sergeant October 23; with Army of Occupa- 
tion December 25 to March 1, 1919; Student Detachment, University 
of Grenoble March 1 to July 1 ; sailed for United States July 22, 
arriving August 1 ; discharged August 7, 1919. 

Hadley, Kleber W., '14. Enlisted June 22, 1918, Indianapolis; as- 
signed Company K, Three Hundred Thirty-sixth Infantry, A. E. F. ; 
in France September 9 to March 25, 1919; promoted sergeant Sep- 
tember 1 ; discharged April 8, 1919. 

Hagemier, Oscar Christopher, '18. Enlisted September 21, 1917, 
Indianapolis; trained Camp Taylor, Kentucky; served with Three 
Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry, Eighty- fourth Division, A. E. F. ; 
arrived in France September, 1918; ordered to Le Mans area for 
training; discharged December 16, 1918. 

Hall, Nevtell P., A. B. '21. Enlisted August 1, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Jefferson Barracks, Missouri and Camp Crane, Pennsyl- 
vania; assigned Twenty-eighth Infantry, Medical Corps, First Di- 
vision, A. E. F. ; participated in engagements of Soissons, St. Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sedan; with Army of Occupation Decem- 
ber 1, 1918 to September 1, 1919; discharged October 1, 1919. 

Hamp, Henry, '13. Enlisted October, 1918, Indianapolis; sent to Re- 
serve Officers' Training Camp, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; dis- 
charged December, 1918. 

Hanby, Leroy Clarkson, a. B., '17. Enlisted November 1, 1917, In- 
dianapolis; trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; assigned 
Motor Truck Company No. 411, Motor Transport Corps, A. E. F. ; 
participated in Champagne-Marne defensive, Aisne-Marne offensive, 
Oise-Aisne offensive; appointed corporal truck driver in Emergency 
Supply Company; discharged August 4, 1919. 

Hanson, Samuel Carlton, '17. Enlisted Naval Reserve Force, April 



276 BUTLER COLLEGE 

26, 1918; assigned to shore duty Bordeaux, France; promoted chief 
petty officer January, 1919 ; discharged June 4, 1919. 

Hanvey, Howard G., '10. Enlisted May 15, 1917, San Francisco, Cali- 
fornia; assigned cable censor, at San Francisco, Communication 
Service, U. S. N. E. F.; released June 1, 1919. 

Hardin, Carl E., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Hargrove, Charles M., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Harlan, Avert S., '19. Enlisted April, 1917, Speedway, Indiana; as- 
signed Eight Hundred Twenty-first Aero Squadron as master signal 
electrician; appointed sergeant; discharged March 4, 1919. 

Harold, Herschel H., '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Harrington, Frederick L., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Harriman, Wayne M., A. B., '21. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Harrod, Clifford L., '10. Enlisted April, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania; promoted captain; assigned to Washington Barracks as in- 
structor in Aerial Photography; discharged April, 1919. 

Hartley, Alonzo Albert, A. B., '10. Enlisted May 8, 1917, Leon 
Springs, Texas; trained Leon Springs May 15 to August 15, First 
Officers' Training Camp; assigned One Hundred Sixty-sixth In- 
fantry, Forty-second Division, A. E. F., later One Hundred Sixty- 
second Infantry, Forty-first Division; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant August 15, 1917 ; sailed overseas October 17 ; discharged 
August 11, 1919. 

Hartman, Herbert Ora, '22. Enlisted October 6, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Harvey, George Philip, '22. Enlisted September 8, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Eighty-fourth Division Officers' Training School May 14, 
1918 to July 13, 1918, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; transferred to 
Central Machine Gun Officers' Training School July 13 to October 



IN THE WORLD WAR 277 

16; to Camp Hancock, Georgia October 16 to December 16; as- 
signed Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry; commissioned sec- 
ond lieutenant October 16; discharged December 16, 1918. Died 
from drowning August 9, 1921; buried in Crown Hill cemetery, In- 
dianapolis. 

Harvey, Hubert Bennett, '17. Served as secretary Young Men's 
Christian Association, at Camp Shelby, Mississippi and in France. 

Harvey, Theodore Reese, '22. Enlisted United States Navy April 18, 
1917, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, Chicago, 
Illinois and Portsmouth, New Hampshire; assigned Medical Corps 
on U. S. S. "South Carolina"; promoted hospital apprentice first 
class August 1, 1918; released August 31, 1919. 

Haughton, George D., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Hazzard, George R., '19. Enlisted May 10, 1918, Fort Wayne, Michi- 
gan; trained Camp Meade, Maryland, Langley Field, Virginia; as- 
signed Twenty-eighth Company, Air Service Aeronautics; trans- 
ferred to Three Hundred Fifty-first Field Artillery, Ninety-second 
Division, A. E. F. ; sailed June 28, 1918; participated in engage- 
ments of Mctz and Lasaons; returned February 14; discharged 
March 9, 1919. 

Heathco, Frank Lesiie, '20. Enlisted April 10, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana May 15 to August 15 ; assigned Battery E, One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed 
October 18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31; trained Camp 
Coetquidan; engaged in defensive operations in Lorraine sector, 
Champagne sector, Marne sector; in offensive operations of St. 
Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne ; gassed; with Army of Occupation; 
returned to United States April 26; discharged May 10, 1919. 

Heinrichs, Nelson W., '14. Served Maintenance Department, Second 
Depot Motor Transport Corps, A. E. F., France. 

Heinrichs, Harry, '03. Medical Reserve Corps. 

Helm, Raymond F., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Hemry, George Watson, A. B., '05. Enlisted with War Council of 
Young Men's Christian Association as educational and religious 
director, A. E. F. June 28, 1918; discharged August 14, 1919. 



278 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Hendren, Egbert Dale, '21. Enlisted October 6, 1918, Bloomington, 
Indiana; Indiana University Naval Unit; promoted apprentice- 
seaman U. S. N. E. F. ; not released. 

Henry, Dewey N., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Henschen, Louis W., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Hernandez, Eemberto A., A. B., '15. Enlisted December 20. 1917, 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, for Medical Enlisted Eeserve 
Corps; transferred October 28, 1918, to Indiana Medical College 
Students' Army Training Corps; no active duty. 

Hibben, James H., '19. Enlisted June 13, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; as- 
signed as sergeant to Gt-neral Staff Intelligence Corps, A. E. F. ; in 
France transferred to Signal Corps and ordered to Thirty-fifth Di- 
vision as replacement ; gassed, sent to Base Hospital No. 27 ; re- 
transferred to Chemical Warfare Service, attached to staff of Major 
Frederick Hemotin; again gassed, November 6, 1918, sent to Base 
Hospitals No. 67 and No. 8; evacuated on hospital ship to Walter 
Eeed General Hospital, U. S. A. ; discharged on surgeon 's certificate 
of disability March 2, 1919. 

Hibben, Thomas E., '14. Enlisted April 14, 1916, Indianapolis, in 
Battery A, First Indiana Field Artillery, for service on Mexican 
Border; transferred in May, 1917, to First Officers' Training 
School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; commissioned second 
lieutenant July 25; first lieutenant, August 15; assigned One Hun- 
dred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; 
transferred to United States Army October 24, as second 
lieutenant; commissioned first lieutenant, Forty-ninth Infantry, 
attached Air Service, Second Operation School, Tours, France, 
Flight "A", Ninetieth Aero Squadron; discharged September 30, 
1919. 

HiDAY, Paul, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 

HiLFiKER, Bernard H., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; transferred United 
States General Hospital No. 25 December 24, 1918. 

Hill, Herbert Eugene, A. B., '21. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianap- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 279 

olis; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Hill, Horace P., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training School; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

HiNE, Newton H., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

HiNMAN, Jack Jones, Jr., A. B., '11. Commissioned July 29, 1918, 
first lieutenant Sanitary Corps, A. E. F. ; arrived Brest, France, 
September 7, 1918; assigned Water Analysis Laboratory, Paris, 
September 17; water supply officer. Base section No. 3 (Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland) October 2 ; Water Analysis Laboratory, Paris, 
January 3, 1919; student Detachment, University of Rennes Feb- 
ruary 24 ; Water Analysis Section American Embarkation Center, Le 
Mans, March 29 ; promoted captain, Sanitary Corps, May 3 ; sailed 
from St. Nazaire June 29; arrived Newport News, Virginia July 
12; discharged July 22, 1919. 

HiTTLE, Leslie L., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Hoagland, Virgil, '20. Enlisted October 7, 1918; Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; promoted to supply 
sergeant Company B November 15 ; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Hodde, Henry F., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Hodges, Dale Ehea, '21. Enlisted United States Navy June 4, 1918, 
Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, Chicago; pro- 
moted gunners' mate, third class; detailed gunnery instructor U. 
S. S. "Essex"; discharged January 31, 1919. 

HOGSETT, George Y., '15. Enlisted May 13, 1917; served in One Hun- 
dred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery and Fiftieth Coast Artillery; 
sailed overseas June 19, 1918; stationed in Meuse-Argonne sector; 
discharged March 17, 1919. 

HoLBROOK, Joseph R., '16. Enlisted May 23, 1918, Columbus Barracks, 
Ohio; trained Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Gordon, Georgia; Signal 
School, St. Aignan, France, where studied telegraphy and qualified 
as operator; assigned to Signal Platoon, Fifty-first Infantry, 
Sixth Division; participated in Meuse-Argonne offensive; with 
Army of Occupation; discharged June 19, 1919. 



280 BUTLER COLLEGE 

HOLLINGSWORTH, MAURICE H., '20. Enlisted June 29, 1918, Valparaiso, 
Indiana J trained Camp Buell, Kentucky, for two months; assigned 
Eadio Division, Coast Artillery Station, Fort Caswell, North Caro- 
lina; discharged December 23, 1918. 

HOLLOWAT, Glenn Hart, '09. Commissioned first lieutenant April 23, 
1918, Chicago; assigned Twentieth Engineer Regiment; sailed over- 
seas May 10, 1918; returned July 13, 1919; discharged July 14, 1919. 
Served as first class private in Indiana National Guard November 
17, 1917 to July 16, 1918. 

HOLSEN, James N., A. B., '17. Assigned Battery E, Sixth Eegiment, 
Field Artillery Replacement Draft, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; ap- 
pointed corporal. 

Holt, Emmet D., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Hopper, Rex, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Hopping, Andrew Daniel, A. B., '17. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained Third Officers' Training Camp, Camp Stanley, Texas; 
Camp Shelby, Mississippi September 29, 1917 to September 9, 
1918; commissioned second lieutenant May 16, 1918; served with 
One Hundred Thirty-ninth Machine Gun Battalion, Thirty-eighth 
Division, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas September 23 ; billeting officer 
for Division and Town Major Bouguenais, Loire-Inf erioure ; after 
Armistice remained in Paris as requisition officer; commissioned 
first lieutenant United States Army July 1, 1920. 

Horton, Chester C, '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

HOBTON, Ronald N., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 10, 1918. 

HovEY, Alfred Willis, '21. Enlisted United States Navy July 17, 1918, 
Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, Chicago, July 20 
to November 7, 1918; promoted seaman second class October 1, sea- 
man January 2, 1919; assigned Coast Defense and Transportation 
Service; aboard U. S. S. "Minnesota" when ruined on Atlantic 
Coast; on S. S. "Ohio" when met her mishaps; made four trips 
to France on U. S. S., "Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm"; one of 100 in 



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the ranks offered entrance to Annapolis in 1918; discharged Sep- 
tember 15, 1919. 

HuBER, Paul H., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Huckleberry, Irvin Eugene, '20. Enlisted December 13, 1917, Louis- 
ville, Kentucky; entered Eoyal Army Medical Training Camp, Eng- 
land; commissioned January 5, 1918; assigned lieutenant Medical 
Corps, Seventy-fourth Yeomanry Division, Forty-fourth Brigade, 
Royal Field Artillery, medical officer first class; discharged March 
8, 1919. 

Huff, Floyd E., '16. Chemical Warfare Service, Camp Lewis, Wash- 
ington. 

HuGGiNS, Benjamin Harrison, '09. Commissioned first lieutenant 
Medical Reserve Corps, September, 1917, Evanston, Illinois; 
trained Camp Dix Hospital to April 1, 1918; served in France 
Base Hospital No. 44, July 5, 1918 to April, 1919; discharged 
May 17, 1919. 

Hughel, Myron Mathias, A. B., '17. Enlisted May 19, 1917, Indi- 
anapolis; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana August 27 to November 27 ; commissioned sec- 
ond lieutenant November 27; assigned Eight Hundred Sixth Pioneer 
Infantry, A. E. F. ; discharged July 9, 1919. 

Hunt, Drexel B., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Hunt, Ernest Martin, '14. Enlisted September 3, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned Company C, Fifth Regiment, One Hundred Sixty-first 
Depot Brigade, Camp Grant, Illinois; promoted sergeant October 
25; discharged November 30, 1918. 

Hurley, Ralph R., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
16, 1918. 

Hurst, Lee W., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Hurt, Lewis A., '20. Secretary Young Men's Christian Association, 
United States Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. 

HuTCHiNS, Frank Frazier, '95. Commissioned captain, Medical 
Reserve Corps, United States Army, May 2, 1917; reported for 



282 BUTLER COLLEGE 

active duty Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana August 5 ; served 
with Headquarters Company, Eighth Division, Brest, France; pro- 
moted to major November 13; to lieutenant-colonel May 3, 1919; 
discharged July 22, 1920. 

HuTCHiNGS, John Willaed '14. Enlisted United States Tank Corps 
May 15, 1918, Mobile, Alabama; trained Camp Colt, Pennsylvania; 
assigned Casual Company, Tank Corps; promoted top sergeant; 
relinquished assignment to go overseas with Company B, Three 
Hundred Twenty-ninth Battalion, Tank Corps; promoted corporal; 
discharged April 9, 1919. 

HUTTON, James H., '11. Enlisted November 4, 1918, Chicago; assigned 
Company Fifty-five, Medical Corps, Fort Riley, Kansas; com- 
missioned captain Medical Reserve Corps; discharged December 
3, 1918. 

Irwin, Paul A., '22. Enlisted October 19, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

ISKE, Alvin George, '20. Enlisted March 29, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Field Artillery Central Officers' Training Camp, Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; commissioned second lieutenant November 13, 
1918; discharged January 16, 1919. 

ISKE, Paul George, '24. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts ; Harvard University Students ' Army Training Corps ; dis- 
charged December 5, 1918. 

Jackson, Harris C, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

James, Edward David, '22. Enlisted February 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Illinois Ground School and Southern Field, Georgia; com- 
missioned second lieutenant Air Service Aeronautics; discharged 
March 11, 1919. 

Jameson, Henry Michener, A. B., '19. Enlisted May 8, 1917, Indi- 
anapolis; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana May 15 to August 15 ; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant, infantry, August 15; served One Hundred Fifty-ninth De- 
pot Brigade, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; instructor Washington Uni- 
versity Training Unit, St. Louis, Missouri and Students' Army 
Training Corps Units at Kansas City, Missouri and Whitman Col- 
lege, Walla Walla, Washington; promoted first lieutenant; dis- 
charged December 26, 1918. 



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Jay, Mark, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Jeffries, Eenzie A., '20. Enlisted September 5, 1918, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky; served as Sergeant One Hundred Twentieth Engineers; 
discharged December, 1918. 

Jenney, Walter Edwin, '10. Enlisted March, 1918, Indiana State 
Militia; secretary Young Men's Christian Association June, 1918 
to January, 1919; discharged January 1, 1919. 

Johns, Charles Everts, '13. Enlisted June 23, 1917, Tacoma, Wash- 
ington ; assigned Military Police with Forty-first Division, A. E. F. ; 
served in Military Police Training Depot, Autun, France Novem- 
ber 14 to December 3, 1918; commissioned second lieutenant May 
7, 1919, St. Aignan-Nevers; transferred to Headquarters Company, 
One Hundred Thirty-fourth Battalion, Military Police Corps, at- 
tached to Provost Marshal General's Department; discharged July 
17, 1919. 

Johns, Glenn William, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Johnson, Arthur Albert, A. B., '95. Served as first lieutenant in 
Company K, Twenty-second Engineers, A. E. F., constructing and 
operating light railways leading from rail-heads to the front lines; 
following Armistice, transferred to Mr. Hoover 's Eelief Organiza- 
tion in Paris as assistant to the American representative on the 
Communications section of the Supreme Economic Council ; dis- 
charged September, 1919. 

Johnson, Glen W., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Johnson, Halford Luther, '18. With Troop B, First Indiana Cavalry, 
when mustered into Federal service August 5, 1917 ; ordered 
September 12 to Camp Shelby, Mississippi; assigned to Battery 
E, One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; transferred to Camp 
Stanley, Texas; sailed overseas April 23, 1918, landing at St. 
Nazaire May 11; trained three months at Saumur Artillery School; 
commissioned second lieutenant Field Artillery September 1 ; as- 
signed to Second Aviation Instruction Center at Tours, sent to 
front November 5 with Three Hundred Fifty-fourth Aero Squadron 
as observer; remained with squadron at Tours until ordered to 
return to United States; discharged August 31, 1919, Saumur, 
France. 



284 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Johnson, Howland Atkinson, '18. Enlisted June 15, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; served in Ninth Motor Supply Train, A. E. F. ; appointed 
corporal; discharged February 20, 1919. 

Johnson, Robert Eaymond, '16. Enlisted in United States Navy 
April 30, 1918, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, 
Chicago; assigned hospital apprentice, Naval Hospital, Great 
Lakes, Illinois. 

Johnson, Roy A., '20. Enlisted June 8, 1917, in Thirteenth United 
States Cavalry, Fort Riley, Kansas; assigned as duty-sergeant to 
Three Hundred Fortieth Field Artillery, Camp Funston, Kansas 
September 5; trained Third Officers' Training Camp, Camp Funs- 
ton; transferred to Field Artillery R. D. Camp Jackson, South Caro- 
lina, where promoted to second lieutenant June 1, 1918; transferred 
to Fort Sill School of Fire, Oklahoma, July 14 to September 20; 
sent to Forty-seventh Field Artillery, Camp Kearney, California; to 
Field ArtUlery B. S. Camp Taylor, Kentucky, January 26, 1919; 
discharged June 11, 1919. 

Jones, Francis R., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Jones, Richard, '18. Enlisted May 15, 1917, Washington University, 
Missouri; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Riley, Kan- 
sas, May 4 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant August 
15; assigned Three Hundred Forty-first Field Artillery; discharged 
December 25, 1918. 

Jones, Rovp-land H., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Jordan, Austin, '19. Served on United States submarine 0-3. 

Jordan, Riley, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler Col- 
lege Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Joyce, Franklin P., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 10, 1918. 

Judson, Josephine, '20 (Mrs. Storey M. Larkin). Enlisted July, 1918, 
Indianapolis, in Army Nurse Corps; served Camp Bouregard, 
Louisiana, October 10 to December 20; transferred to Camp Wads- 
virorth. South Carolina until February 10; discharged as Student 
Nurse February 10, 1919. 

Judy, Ferris Mills, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918; University of Cin- 



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einnati Students' Army Training Corps; transferred Fifty-fourth 
Battery Field Artillery O. T. S. Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Novem- 
ber 5; discharged February 1, 1919. 

Kain, Horace, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Kautz, John Iden, '17. A'^olunteered French Army Motor Transport 
Corps, May 26, 1917, Longpont, France; assigned American Mis- 
sion Eeserve Mallet; served with Sixth French Army, support of 
Soissons-Eheims sector and battle of Chemin-des-Dames to October 
1 ; discharged from French Army to enlist in United States Army 
October 1, 1917, Jouaignes, France; commissioned second lieuten- 
ant September 25, 1918, Jonchery-sur-Vesle ; participated in engage- 
ments of Cambrai, Somme defensive, Aisne, Oise-Aisne, Aisne- 
Marne, Somme offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive, defensive Sec- 
tor-Aisne; discharged after twenty-four months' service overseas 
May 31, 1919. 

"Letter of Congratulation 
The General Commander-in-Chief sends his congratulations to the 
officers, non-commissioned officers, brigadiers and privates of the 
Automobile Service for the activity, devotion and endurance of 
which they have just given proof, under the energetic and en- 
lightened direction of Major Doumenc. Whatever may have been 
the difficulty of circumstances, the intensive transportation of 
troops and of provisions has been carried out since the month of 
March, without a pause, day and night, with a rapidity and an 
accuracy which do honor to the service. At the same time, the 
automobile parks assured the work of repair and permitted the 
constant maintenance of all the automobile formations at their full 
transportation capacity. Drivers on the roads, workmen in the 
shops, have contributed their part in the success of our operations. 

Petain. 
Sent to Lieutenant John Iden Kautz. ' ' 

Keenan, James Harlan, '18. Enlisted June 5, 1917, Lafayette, In- 
diana; trained Camp Shelby, Mississippi, September, 1917 to Septem- 
ber, 1918 ; served as sergeant first class. Company E, One Hundred 
Thirteenth Engineers; sailed overseas with Thirty-eighth Division, 
landing October 3; trained Engineer Camp, Langres, France; dis- 
charged June 25, 1919. 



286 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Kellems, Anson M., '15. Enlisted March 18, 1918, Columbus Barracks, 
Ohio; assigned Twelfth Company, Seventy-second Coast Artillery 
Corps, Fort McKinley, Ohio; discharged April 17, 1919. 

Kemeely, Harvey R., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 10, 1918. 

Kenecke, Howard, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed canteen 
sergeant; discharged December 6, 1918. 

Kennedy, Glen Leroy, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed canteen 
sergeant; discharged December 6, 1918. 

*KENNrNGT0N, EoBERT Edward, '15. Enlisted May 7, 1917, Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp; 
commissioned second lieutenant United States Army August 15 ; 
transferred to Camp Colt, Pennsylvania and to Camp Greene, North 
Carolina; assigned Company B, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Di- 
vision, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas May, 1918, landed in England, sent 
to France to Saumur area for training; appointed liaison officer, 
First Brigade, Fourth Division; commissioned first lieutenant; 
killed in action while leading his men through a German barrage 
fire August 4, 1918, near Chery-Chartreuve ; buried in Chateau 
Thierry Cemetery, France; reburied on July 9, 1921, in 
Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. American Legion Post No. 34, 
Indianapolis, named in his honor. 

*Kennington, Eobert Francis, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Lafay- 
ette, Indiana; Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps 
Unit; discharged December 19, 1918. Died June 28, 1921, buried 
in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. 

KiBLER, Jackson D., '20. Enlisted June 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago, Illinois; 
commissioned ensign August 23, 1918, Great Lakes; assigned to 
line duty, U. S. N. R. F. ; not released. 

Kingsbury, George Hunt, '20. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis, 
in Field Hospital No. 1, Indiana National Guard, federalized 
August 5, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison; transferred to Camp 
Shelby, Mississippi August 25, where trained to September 17, 
1918; sailed overseas October 6, 1918; assigned to Three Hundred 
Eleventh Ambulance Company, December 6, 1918; moved from 
Saumur to Portets April 15, 1919; to Camp No. 1 Bordeaux April 
30; sailed for United States May 15; discharged June 6, 1919. 



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KiNSiiKT, Harold E., '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 10, 1918. 

KiRBY, Clifford B., '18. Enlisted September 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned Company E, One Hundred Thirty-eighth Engineers, Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; discharged December 15, 1918. 

KiRKLiN, Byrl Raymond, '16. Commissioned first lieutenant Medical 
Reserve Corps, X-Ray Department, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 
Illinois. 

KiROWiTZ, Gabriel Samuel, '20. Enlisted October 17, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, 
October 18, 1918 to January 11, 1919; promoted sergeant-major 
October 10 and commissioned second lieutenant Field Artillery; 
discharged January 11, 1919. 

KiRTLEY, Homer, '09. Enlisted November 23, 1917, Chicago; assigned 
Company E, Four Hundred Fifteenth Telegraph Battalion, Signal 
Corps, A. E. F. ; overseas March 22, 1918 to May 23, 1919; dis- 
charged June 1, 1919. 

Kline, Owen A., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Kline, Robert L., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Koehler, Russell W., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 16, 1918. 

KoEHNE, John L., '15. United States Navy. 

KOHLSTAEDT, GEORGE WiLLiAM, '11. Commissioned first lieutenant, 
Medical Corps, November 8, 1918; reported for active duty at Fort 
Riley, Kansas, November 21 ; discharged December 19, 1918. 

KoiN, Harry Y., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed battalion me- 
chanic; discharged December 6, 1918. 

La Barbera, Frank, '20. With Battery E, First Indiana Field Artillery, 
when mustered into Federal service August 5, 1917, and later 
designated One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Di- 
vision; trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; sailed with 
Division October 18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31; received 
artillery training at Camp Coetquidan; promoted sergeant Decem- 



288 BUTLER COLLEGE 

ber 1; ordered to active front in Lorraine sector February 22, 1918; 
in defensive sectors of Luneville and Baccarat February 27, to 
June 18; Champagne-Marne defensive July 14 to 19; Aisne-Marne 
offensive July 24 to August 4; St. Mihiel offensive September 11 to 
16; Meuse-Argonne offensive October 1 to November 11; gassed; 
with Army of Occupation until April 12, 1919 ; returned to United 
States April 25; discharged May 9, 1919. 

Lacy, Albert Iden, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Ann Arbor, Michi- 
gan; University of Michigan, Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 8, 1918. 

Lang, Frank A., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Larkin, Storey M., '20. Enlisted in Indiana National Guard March 
29, 1917, Indianapolis; trained First Officers' Training Corps, 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15; assigned 
Battery E, One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Di- 
vision, A. E. F. ; sailed October 18, landing St. Nazaire October 31 ; 
engaged in defensive sectors of Luneville and Baccarat, February 
27 to June 18; in Champagne-Marne defensive, Aisne-Marne offen- 
sive, St. Mihiel offensive, minor operations in Woevre, Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive; with Army of Occupation; returned to United 
States April 26, 1919; discharged with Headquarters Company 
May 9, 1919. 

Larrabee, Lloyd W., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Larsh, Egbert Lawrence, '20. Enlisted May 22, 1917, Battery A, 
First Indiana Field Artillery, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; 
assigned to Headquarters Company, One Hundred Fiftieth Field 
Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas October 
18, landing St. Nazaire October 31; trained Camp Coetquidan; sent 
to Lorraine front February 22, 1918; promoted sergeant April 1; 
participated in engagements in Champagne sector in July; 
Aisne-Marne offensive in July; St. Mihiel drive in September; sent 
on detached service to First Corps Army School September 22; 
transferred to Second Corps Army School in November; trans- 
ferred to Twelfth Service Company, Signal Corps December 16, to 
Fifty-sixth Service Company December 25th; assigned to St. Aig- 
nan Casual Camp, Fifty-seventh Service Company, Signal Corps, 



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June 7, 1919; transferred to Casual Company No. 5994 bound for 
United States June 14; arrived June 28; discharged July 9, 1919. 

Lay, Charles Henry, '20. Enlisted United States Navy May 12, 1918, 
Indianapolis; trained as seaman second class Purdue University 
September 9, to December 21; released December 21, 1918. 

Leach, Ern R., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Leach, Herbert S., '17. Commissioned lieutenant Dental Corps Octo- 
ber 5, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; promoted captain 
April 8, 1918; discharged January 18, 1919. 

Leak, Virgil T., '14. Enlisted May 9, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, as 
quartermaster first class Aviation Corps, U. S. N. R. F. ; trained 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ground School for Naval 
Aviators; commissioned ensign March 4, 1918; sailed overseas 
March 30; graduated from Bombing School in France in 
June; assigned seaplane war patrol duty July until Armistice; 
placed on inactive duty March 30, 1919. 

Leeth, Herman Bascom, '18. Enlisted May 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15, to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant 
Signal Corps, Air Service, May 13, 1918; served as instructor in 
Flying Corps de 1 'Armee ; gave exhibition flights for Red Cross and 
Liberty Loan drives; detailed Coast Patrol Pilot off Florida. 

Leffler, Elton F., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Lemen, Carl H., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Lenaham, John Vincent, '19. Enlisted July 20, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky; appointed sergeant April 29, 1919; discharged June 17, 
1919. 

*Leitkhardt, Henry Reinhold, '12. Enlisted Aviation Signal Corps, 
December 7, 1917, Indianapolis; trained Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Kelly Field, Texas, Sheets Field, Arkan- 
sas, Camp Pike, Arkansas; promoted sergeant One Hundred Twenty- 
fourth Aero Squadron April 10, 1918; transferred at own request 
to United States Infantry; instructor in Development Battery, 



290 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

Headquarters Company, One Hundred Sixty-second Depot Brigade, 
Camp Pike; died of penumonia Camp Pike October 2, 1918; buried 
in St. Joseph's cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Lewis, Burvia Wallace, A. B., '15. Enlisted February 4, 1918; as- 
signed Depot Company Signal Corps, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; 
transferred to Company A, Three Hundred Twenty-third Field 
Signal Battalion, Camp Punston, Kansas, February 15, 1918; 
trained Camp Funston and Camp Morse, Texas ; promoted corporal 
April 1, sergeant July 1; sailed overseas September 29; attached 
Headquarters Signal Corps Ecplacement Area as town-major of 
Brarieux until January 19, 1919 ; attached to Headquarters, Thirty- 
second Division, Army of Occupation; transferred to Sorbonne 
School Detachment March 1 to June 30; sailed from Brest July 6; 
discharged July 19, 1919. 

Lewis, Joseph Edwin, '14. Enlisted May 14, 1917, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort 
Harrison, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant 
August 15; transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky; assigned One 
Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, United States Infantry; pro- 
moted first lieutenant July 3, 1918 ; to captain November 2 ; dis- 
charged April 21, 1919. 

Lewis, Eeagan W., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

LiEBHARDT, Wayne F., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

LiNEBACK, Francis M., '19. Enlisted Indianapolis, June 28, 1917, In- 
diana National Guard; assigned Troop B, First Indiana Cavalry, 
mustered into Federal service August 5, 1917, and designated Bat- 
tery E, One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; trained Camp 
Shelby, Mississippi, September, 1917 to September, 1918; sailed 
overseas with Thirty-eighth Division which ceased to function as 
combat division October 6, 1918; sent to Le Mans area; returned to 
United States December 23 ; discharged January 16, 1918. 

LiNGEMAN, Leslie Egberts, '14. Enlisted United States Navy Eeserve 
Corps, April 27, 1917, assistant surgeon with rank of lieutenant 
junior grade; promoted to senior grade February, 1918; served 
at United States Naval Medical School, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 
U. S. S. " Gold Shell, " U. S. S. " Olympia, ' ' and Naval Hospital, 
Charleston, South Carolina. 



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LmviLLE, Harrell a., '21. Enlisted June 7, 1918; assigned to Quar- 
termaster Corps, Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida; transferred to 
Newport News, Virginia, July 24; sailed July 2G with Three Hun- 
dred Seventeenth Supply Company; arrived Brest August 6; at 
Gievres August 14; served in Chief Personnel Officers' Office, 
Tours; later assigned to Sixth Cavalry Band for musical duty; 
after Armistice to Orchestra Road Troupe, leaving Tours March 
10, 1919, for tour of France; discharged June 24, 1919. 

LoCHRY, Ralph Landis, '15. Commissioned first lieutenant Medical 
Reserve Corps, United States Army August 18, 1917; reported for 
active duty at Base Hospital No. 32, Fort Harrison, Indiana Sep- 
tember 1; sailed overseas December 4; promoted captain March 4, 
1919; discharged May 20, 1919. 

LOCKHART, Arthur Wh^liam, '16. Enlisted April 26, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; j^romoted corporal May 18; trained Officers' Training Camp, 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky, July 18, to October 16; commissioned 
second lieutenant Field Artillery October 16; assigned Battery A, 
Second Regiment; discharged December 7, 1918. 

Logan, Leon Buckles, A. B., '12. Enlisted Fort Meyer, Virginia, De- 
cember 12, 1917; assigned Ordnance-Explosive Section, Chemical 
Warfare Service; appointed sergeant; discharged December 29, 
1918. 

Long, Frank E., '07. Commissioned May 14, 1917, first lieutenant 
Dental Corps, Indiana National Guard, which was federalized 
August 5; promoted coptain February 25, 1919; assigned 
Three Hundred Nineteenth Engineer Regiment, One Hundred Thirty- 
ninth Field Artillery, Thirty-i. ighth Division, A. E. F. ; discharged 
September 18, 1919. 

Long, William Hunt, A. B., '03. Enlisted September 8, 1918; com- 
missioned first lieutenant Medical Corps, October 30; assigned 
Medical Officers' Training Corps, Fort Riley, Kansas, November 
11 to November 29; discharged November 30, 1918. 

Longley, William Raymond, A. B., '02. Chemical Warfare Service, 
Wilmington, Delaware. 

Loop, Aubrey Leighton, '99. Commissioned first lieutenant. May 27, 
1918, Economy, Indiana; assigned Base Hospital, Medical Corps, 
Camp Gordon, Georgia; transferred to United States General Hos- 
pital No. 28, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, February 21, 1919; discharged 
April 12, 1919. 



292 BUTLER COLLEGE 

LoEBER, Harry A. Enlisted Indianapolis September 21, 1917; assigned 
Company L, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry, Medical De- 
partment, A. E. r.; appointed sergeant October 5, 1917; assigned 
to Five Hundred Fifteenth Engineer Battalion, Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky; overseas May 8, 1918 to June 28, 1919; discharged July 
7, 1919. 

LoscHE, Albert H. W., '15. Enlisted November 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
assigned Headquarters Company, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth In- 
fantry, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, November 12; promoted corporal 
December 28, sergeant January 23, 1918; commissioned second 
lieutenant December 4, 1918; discharged December 20, 1918. 

LOY, Forest Allen, '18. Enlisted May 10, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison. Indiana, 
May 15, to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant. Field Ar- 
tillery, August 15; promoted to first lieutenant, August 3, 1918; 
served with Three Hundred Twenty-sixth Field Artillery, A. E. P.; 
discharged March 11, 1919. 

LoY, George Ben, '22. Enlisted May 9, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Harrison, 
May 15, to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant, August 
15; transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, August 28 to Septem- 
ber 2, 1918; assigned Battery A, Three Hundred Twenty-fifth Field 
Artillery, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F.; sailed September 9, 
landing at Glasgow and stopping at Winchester, Southampton, Le 
Havre, Bordeaux, where trained Camp de Souge; transferred to Air 
Service and trained Second Aviation Instruction Centre, Tours; 
discharged July 19, 1919. 

LoY, Glenn Dewitt, '12. Enlisted May 10, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana May 15, to August 15; commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, Field Artillery August 15; promoted first 
lieutenant December 15; served with Three Hundred Twenty-sixth 
Field Artillery, A. E. F. ; discharged April 15, 1919. 

McBroom, Marion, '21. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 10, 
1918. 

McCallum, Joseph Thomas Carey, A. B., '16. Enlisted Indiana Na- 
tional Guard April 6, 1917, Indianapolis; trained First Officers' 
Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to 
August 15; transferred to Trench Warfare School, Harvard Uni- 
versity, August 19, to September 21; assigned Company Twenty- 



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ninth, Second Regiment, One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky, September 29, to May, 1918; transferred 
to Machine Gun Centre, Camp Hancock, Georgia, May, 1918; as- 
signed to Replacement Regiment, A. E. F. ; sailed July 15; 
assigned to One Hundred Forty-seventh Machine Gun Battalion, 
Forty-first Division to October 17; sent to front with Three Hun- 
dred Sixtieth Infantry, Ninetieth Division, participating in Meuse- 
Argonne offensive; with Army of Occupation until May 17, 1919; 
returned to United States July 5; discharged July 8, 1919. 

McClaflin, William R., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

McClain, Harry Elmo, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918; DePauw Uni- 
versity Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 18, 
1918. 

McCoNKEY, Henry W., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

McCoNNELL, Alva Edison, '18. Enlisted September 4, 1917, Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, assigned to Quartermaster Corps; promoted to 
corporal September 13, to sergeant September 29; transferred to 
Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida, July 29 ; commissioned second 
lieutenant September 6, 1918; transferred as commanding officer 
to Thirty-first Company, First Labor Regiment October 26, 1918 ; 
discharged December 18, 1918. 

McCoNNELL, John F., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

McCoNNELL, Joseph, '00. On Mexican Border as first lieutenant Regi- 
mental Surgeon; promoted to captain at Presidio, California, in 
1917; to major at Camp Fremont, California; following Armistice 
stationed at Fort Stevens, Oregon; discharged November, 1920. 

McCoRD, Delbert Ross, '18. Enlisted United States Navy, June 11, 
1917, Indianapolis; trained Newport, Rhode Island; assigned sea- 
man. United States Naval Forces on U. S. S. " Carola ' ' and U. S. 
S. "Isabel"; released June 24, 1919. 

McCoy, Pearlie R., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

McCullough, William Andrevf, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Lafay- 



294 BUTLER COLLEGE 

ette, Indiana; Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December 19, 1918. 

McDaniel, Ardis L., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

McGaughet, Cakl Williamson, A. B., '01. Served on Conscription 
Board of Hancock county as medical examiner, June 5, 1917, to 
July 1, 1918; enlisted May 1, 1918, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indi- 
ana; commissioned May 27, captain Medical Corps; attached to 
Surgical Staff, General Hospital No. 26, Camp Dodge, Iowa; pro- 
moted to major; discharged April, 1919. 

McGatjghey, Chalmers, A. B., '21. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

McGaughey, Samuel, A. B., '97. Enlisted August 13, 1918, Camp 
Greenleaf, Georgia; there trained until October 8; commissioned 
captain. Medical Corps; transferred to Camp Dix, New Jersey; 
assigned Third Training Battalion, One Hundred Fifty-third Depot 
Brigade, Infantry; discharged July 9, 1919. Promoted major 
Medical Eeserve Corps September 18, 1919. 

McGavran, Donald Anderson, A. B., '19. Enlisted April 28, 1917, in 
First Separate Squadron, Indiana Cavalry Troop B, Indiana Na- 
tional Guard, federalized August 5, trained at Indiana Fair 
Grounds, Indianapolis, until September 15, when transferred to 
Camp Shelby, Mississippi; Squadron transferred to Thirty-second 
Depot Brigade, retransferred to Battery F, One Hundred Thirty- 
ninth Field Artillery; again transferred to Headquarters Detach- 
ment of Sixty-third Field Artillery Brigade, December 1, 1917; 
promoted corporal February 22, 1918; appointed on special 
school detail, sailed October 2; located in Southampton, Le Havre, 
Chatillon-sur-Seine, Nantes, Vannes, Brest; arrived in United States 
December 26; discharged January 19, 1919. 

McGheyey, Lekoy p., '18. Enlisted September 21, 1917; assigned 
Company D, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky; transferred to Headquarters Company, One Hundred 
Twenty-ninth Infantry, Thirty-third Division, A. E. F., April 7, 
1918; sailed May 10, landing at Brest May 23; promoted sergeant 
October 24; participated in major offensives of the Somme in 
July and August, in several minor operations in the Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive; with Army of Occupation at Luxembourg; dis- 
charged June 4, 1919. 



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McGoLDRiCK, James P., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

McIlvaine, Albert S., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

McKenzie, Glenn, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

McMuRRAY, Floyd I., A. B., '16. Enlisted December 15, 1917, Camp 
Shelby, Mississippi; commissioned first lieutenant July 6, 1918; 
transferred to Twentieth Infantry, Camp Funston, Kansas ; to 
Fort Sheridan, Illinois December 15; discharged December 11, 1919. 

McNicoL, John F., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis: 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

McEoBERTS, Earl Samuel, A. B., '17. Enlisted April 3, 1918; trained 
Eadio Signal Corps Training Camp, College Park, Maryland; com- 
missioned second lieutenant, August 14, 1918, Camp Alfred Vail, 
New Jersey; assigned Two Hundred Twenty-second Field Signal 
Battalion, Fifteenth Service Company, Camp Meade, Maryland ; 
discharged February 1, 1920. 

McShane, Gerald, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

McTurnan, Clair, '11. Enlisted April 25, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky; assigned Three Hundred Ninth Ammuni- 
tion Train, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F. ; promoted Sergeant ; 
discharged February 13, 1921. 

Magill, Willis Francis, '19. Enlisted Indianapolis, September 3, 
1917; assigned Company C, First Eegiment of Engineers, Septem- 
ber 19; transferred Company C, One Hundred Thirteenth Eegiment, 
A. E. F., May 6, 1918; overseas September 15, to July 12, 1919; 
detailed First Censor and Press Company, Paris; discharged July 
19, 1919. 

Majers, Kenneth, '22. Enlisted October 19, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
10, 1918. 

Malott, John Orus, '17. Enlisted United States Navy, December 17, 
1917, Indianapolis; trained United States Naval Training Station, 



296 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Illinois; three times refused commission for physical reasons; ap- 
pointed chief of first section of company in March; company-com- 
mander in June; yeoman in October; promoted assistant coast in- 
spector; released April 1, 1919. 

Mannon, Floyd E., '20. Enlisted United States Navy March 23, 1918; 
appointed musician second class; discharged January 26, 1919. 

Mantle, Thomas Guy, A. B., '21. Enlisted May 12, 1917, Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp, 
May 15, to August 15, Fort Harrison; commissioned second lieuten- 
ant August 15; transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and as- 
signed to Three Hundred Thirty-third Infantry, Eighty-fourth Di- 
vision; promoted first lieutenant chaplain January 28, 1918; to 
Fort Houston, Texas, in February and assigned to Thirteenth Ma- 
chine Gun Battalion; overseas April 15, arrived in France May 1, 
joining Tv?enty-sixth Division at Menil-la-Tour; in June entered 
trenches near Ban de Laveline; August 1 on front in St. Die 
Sector; August 20 participated in battle of Frapelle; September 
12 went over the top in St. Mihiel salient, in which battle detailed 
to Eleventh Infantry; occupied with helping wounded and burying 
the dead; participated in Meuse-Argonne offensive; assigned to 
One Hundred Twenty-first Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division; 
with Headquarters Company of Third Army ordered into Germany 
and assigned to Evacuation Hospital No. 2, Coblenz am Ehine; in 
Spring transferred to Twenty-sixth Infantry, First Division; dis- 
charged August 28, 1919. 

Mabkland, Glen A., '20. Enlisted April 12, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana; assigned to One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty- 
second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas October 18, arriving St. 
Nazaire October 31; engaged on the Lorraine, Chateau Thierry, 
Champagne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne front; wounded April 18, 
1918 and gassed May 27; discharged April 25, 1919. 

Maksh, Chester A., A. B., '12. Enlisted August 18, 1917, New Castle, 
Indiana; commissioned second lieutenant from civil life; attended 
Medical Officers' Training Corps, Chickamauga Park, Georgia, and 
Cornell University School of X-Ray; as first lieutenant served in 
Verdun Sector and Argonne drive, as roentgeneologist to surgical 
teams, chief work being that of fleuroscopic x-ray for location of 
foreign bodies with Evacuation Hospital No. 27 and Base Hospital 
No. 67; after Armistice assigned to Ambulance Company No. 20, 
Medical Reserve Corps, Sixth Division; discharged June 10, 1919. 



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Marshall, Charles Burton, '20. Enlisted United States Navy July 
7, 1917, Indianapolis; attended U. S. Naval Academy, June 17 to 
July 29, 1918; commissioned ensign May 28, at Norfolk, Virginia, 
Fifth District; served as supply and disbursing officer. Pay Corps, 
Naval Reserve, Cherbourg, France; released July 31, 1919. 

Mason, Arthur H., '18. Enlisted April 3, 1918; assigned to Seventieth 
Coast Artillery, A. E. F., as musician; discharged March, 1919. 

Masters, John Melvin, A. B., '21. Enlisted July 18, 1918, Fort 
Sheridan, Illinois; trained Students' Army Training Corps at Fort 
Sheridan and at Camp Perry, Ohio; discharged September 16, 1918. 

Masters, Robert John, '15. Enlisted November 21, 1917, Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana, for Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; no 
active duty; discharged January 4, 1919. 

Mathews, Murray, A. B., '13. Enlisted June 18, 1918, Del Monte, 
California; promoted to sergeant July 18, 1918; assigned to Tv?enty- 
fourth Squadron, Second Provisional Regiment, Spruce Production 
Division, Air Service, at Vancouver Barracks, Washington; dis- 
charged December 14, 1918. 

Mathews, William R., '14. Sworn in United States Marine Corps, 
May 21, 1917, Champaign, Illinois, as second lieutenant; attended 
Officers' Training School at Quantico, Virginia, June, 1917 to Oc- 
tober, 1917; sailed for France October 24, 1917; assigned Fifty- 
fifth Company, Fifth Regiment, Second Division, U. S. Marines, No- 
vember 22, at Damblain, Vosges; attended British Bayonet and 
Physical School, St. Pol, Pays de Calais, January 1 to January 26; 
attached to Twenty-fifth Battalion, West Yorkshire, Sixty-second Di- 
vision, British Expeditionary Forces, January 26 to February 2; en- 
gaged enemy at Oppy Wood, near Vimy Ridge; promoted first lieu- 
tenant November 26, 1917; rejoined Fifth Marines February 5; 
participated in Les Esparges Sector, Toulon Sector, Verdun, Chateau 
Thierry Sector, including Les Mares Farm, Hill 142, Belleaa 
Wood, in counter attack south of Soissons, Marbochc Sector, Pont- 
a-Mousson, battle of St. Mihiel, Blanc Mont Ridge, Champagne; 
wounded on Blanc Mont Ridge near town of Somme-Py October 4; 
evacuated to Hospital No. 3, Paris, October 9, to December 30; 
in Replacement Depot, St. Aignan waiting for orders to United 
States, January 1, 1919 to February 12; arrived in United States 
March 11; transferred to Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California 
for recuperation; discharged June 30, 1919. Promoted captain Oc- 
tober 15, 1918; cited to "ordre de I'armee" by Petain: "Near 



298 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Vierzy, July 19, 1918, he displayed great bravery by marking the 
position of enemy trench mortars and machine guns, capturing 
them and seventy-five prisoners with the aid of his men. ' ' Awarded 
Croix de Guerre with Palm. 

Mauzy, Harold Guffin, '04. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Port Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana ; trained Second Officers ' Training Camp, August 
27 to November 27; commissioned second lieutenant November 27; 
assigned to Three Hundred Twenty-fifth Machine Gun Bat- 
talion, One Hundred Fifty-eighth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division, 
A. E. F. ; promoted to first lieutenant August 26, 1918; adjutant 
Three Hundred Twenty-fifth Battalion; casual officer of Eighty- 
third Division; discharged May 13, 1919. 

Mendenhall, Murray, '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

*Mercer, Wilson Etjssell, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; died of pneumonia 
in Unit Hospital, Irvington, Indiana, December 12, 1918 and 
buried in East Maplewood cemetery, Anderson, Indiana. 

Merrill, William McKinley, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Unit Students' Army Training 
Corps; discharged December, 1918. 

Mess, George J., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Meyer, Houston H., '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Meyer, Eoscoe D., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 16, 
1918. 

*MiCHAEL, Guy Griffith, '11. Enlisted June 1, 1917, Cincinnati, Ohio; 
trained United States Marine Corps, Paris Island and at Quantico, 
Virginia; promoted to corporal; detached from company and de- 
tailed as secretary to Chaplain Father McDonald; transferred to 
Marine Barracks at Quantico, Virginia, where served as warrant 
officer and chief reporter on Marine weekly ' ' The Leatherneck ' ' ; 
discharged March 25, 1919; died in Marine Hospital at Quantico of 
effects of influenza and buried at Noblesville, Indiana. 

MiLBURN, Eaymond F., '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Bloomington, 



IN THE WORLD WAR 299 

Indiana; Indiana University Naval Unit; discharged December 
23, 1918. 

Miller, Paul W., '18. Enlisted September 5, 1917; assigned Base 
Hospital, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; promoted sergeant first class, 
Medical Eeserve Corps; discharged July 31, 1919. 

Miller, Sayers John, '21. Enlisted United States Navy, October 1, 
1918 at Indiana University; released December 20, 1918. 

Miller, William Theodore, '16. Enlisted United States Army, No- 
vember 12, 1917, Indianapolis; assigned Medical Enlisted Reserve 
Corps, Indianapolis City Hospital; discharged January 3, 1919. 

Mills, John R., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

MiNTON, Ralph Carleton, '16. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis; 
served in Army Y. M. C. A., September, 1917, to May, 1918; as- 
signed Company D, Three Hundred Fifteenth Ammunition Train, 
A. E. F. ; appointed corporal August, 1918; participated in Meuse- 
Argonae offensive; discharged June 20, 1919. 

Mitchell, Thomas M., '20. Trained Fourth Training Battery, Field 
Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; commissioned second 
lieutenant. Field Artillery, September, 1918; discharged November 
1, 1919. 

Mock, Ernest G., '14. Enlisted October 5, 1917, Indianapolis; as- 
signed to Company E, Three Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry, A. 
E. F. ; trained Army Corps School, Langres, October 5, 
to January 4, 1919; commissioned second lieutenant, Infantry, 
March 16, at St. Aignan; discharged July 28, 1919. 

MoFFATT, John, '16. Secretary Young Men's Christian Association, 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. 

Moffett, Lee, A. B., '12. Enlisted June 22, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and Camp Gordon, Georgia; pro- 
moted to corporal; assigned to Sixth Company, One Hundred Fifty- 
eighth Depot Brigade, United States Infantry ; discharged Novem- 
ber 29, 1918. 

Montgomery, James Evans, '08. Enlisted August 25, 1917, Sau 
Francisco, California; attended Presidio Training Camp until No- 
vember 14; commissioned first lieutenant. Aviation Section, Signal 
Reserve Corps November 8, 1917; promoted captain April 17; dis- 
charged March 4, 1919. 

Moore, Ben. B., '20. Enlisted December 11, 1917, Indianapolis, for 



300 BUTLEE COLLEGE 

Medical Enlisted Eeserve Corps; transferred to Indiana University 
Students' Army Training Corps October 28, 1918; no active duty. 

Moore, Berg D., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Moore, George D., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Moore, Otto R., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Moore, Paul Henry, '21. Enlisted June 4, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; assigned Medical Corps, Fourth 
Battalion, Twenty-second Engineer Regiment, A. E. F. ; sailed over- 
seas September 1, arriving in France September 14; participated 
in Meuse-Argonne offensive; vsrith Army of Occupation in Germany; 
sailed for United States June 26; discharged July 2, 1919. 

Moore, Robert Neal, '17. Enlisted August 28, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, August 
29, to December 11 ; discharged December 11, 1918. 

Moore, Thomas B., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918; Indiana State 
Normal School, Eastern Division, Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December, 1918. 

Moorhead, Robert Lovfery, '96. Enlisted February 10, 1892, Indianap- 
olis; promoted colonel Fourth Indiana Infantry when regiment 
was federalized and designated as One Hundred Thirty-ninth 
Field Artillery, August 5, 1917; ordered to Camp Shelby, 
Mississippi and to Fort Sill, Oklahoma; sailed overseas as 
commanding officer. One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, 
Thirty-eighth Division September, 1918; division ordered to Le 
Mans area, where ceased to function as combat division; regiment 
demobilized at Fort Benjamin Harrison January 20, 1919. 

Morgan, Carey Elmore, A. B., '83. Sent to France under auspices of 
Young Men's Christian Association to gain information to carry on 
at home welfare work among boys in the A. E. F. ; sailed July 15, 
1918; visited camps and hospitals to the battle's front; returned 
November 1, 1918. 

Morgan, James Greene, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Oxford, Ohio; 
trained Miami University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December, 1918. 



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Morrow, Avery P., '17. Assigned Fifty-eighth Infantry, Camp Greene, 
North Carolina, February 2, 1918 ; sailed overseas April 1 ; pro- 
moted sergeant; participated in battle of Chateau Thierry; re- 
turned to United States as instructor Intelligence Service, Camp 
Custer, Michigan; discharged January 29, 1919. 

MOSSMAN, Eay M., '22. Enlisted October 1.5, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Mount, Cleon Wade, '00. Organized Company I, First Indiana In- 
fantry, April 24, 1917; later designated Company I, One Hundred 
Fifty-first Infantry, Thirty-eighth Division; sailed October 4. 1918; 
on dissolution of Thirty-eighth Division for replacement purposes 
assigned to command Company I, Twenty-third Infantry, Second 
Division, promoted captain in Army of Occupation; transferred 
to command of Company C, Three Hundred Twenty-seventh Infan- 
try, Eighty-fifth Division for purpose of returning to the United 
States; arrived April 4, 1919; discharged April 25, 1919 — twenty 
years to the day from date of discharge from Spanish-American 
war. 

Mount, Harry William, '23. Enlisted July 28, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Vancouver Barracks, Washington; assigned Twelfth Squad- 
ron, Military Police Headquarters, Provisional Regiment, Aviation 
Service, Signal Corps; transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Jan 
uary 25; discharged February 10, 1919. 

Moyer, Jerome M., '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 20, 
1918. 

Mueller, Adolph, '18. Served in Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Wads- 
worth, New Jersey. 

MuLLANE, Daniel Francis, A. B., '14. Enlisted July 22, 1918, Camp 
Lee, Virginia, assigned Forty-eighth Training Battery, Field Ar- 
tillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; discharged December 
2, 1918. 

MuLLANE, George Price, '20. Enlisted June 27, 1918, Indianapolis, 
where stationed at Training Detachment No. 4; transferred to Field 
Artillery Replacement Draft; discharged December 16, 1918. 

MuLLiN, Ross Deforest, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Mulroy, John Avery, '22. Enlisted October 21, 1918, Indianapolis; 



302 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Myers, Tyner Wolfe, '11. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Second Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana August 27 to November 27 ; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant November 27 ; promoted first lieutenant Field Artillery 
September 23, 1918; served at Camp Grant, Illinois, at Fort Sill, 
Oklahoma, at Camp Kearney, California; discharged December 5, 
1918. 

Myers, Walter E., '06. Enlisted Motor Officers' Training Corps, 
Camp Greenleaf , Georgia ; served in hospital. Motor Company No. 8 ; 
discharged December 30, 1918. 

Negley, Pearley B., '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Nelson, Edwin George. Commissioned first lieutenant. Medical Ee- 
serve Corps, February 7, 1918; reported for active duty at Camp 
Greenleaf, Georgia, March 20, 1918; served overseas; discharged 
February 4, 1919. 

Nelson, Samuel D., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Nevitt, Exjssell Urban, '15. Enlisted August 3, 1917, Indianapolis; 
stationed at Camp Grant, Illinois, and Camp Logan, Texas, latter 
place appointed cook September 28 ; assigned to One Hundred 
Thirty-first Ambulance Company, One Hundred Eighth Sanitary 
Train, Thirty-third Division, A. E. F. ; transferred to Camp Merritt, 
New Jersey; sailed June 4, 1918, landing at Liverpool June 12; 
arrived LeHavre June 19 ; served on Verdun, St. Mihiel and Ar- 
gonne fronts; discharged June 4, 1919. 

Newcomb, John Eay, '03. Commissioned captain, Medical Eeserve 
Corps July, 1917; promoted major. Medical Corps, August, 1918; 
assigned as chief of department of Ophthalmology in attending sur- 
geon's office, Washington, D. C. ; promoted lieutenant-colonel vrhen 
discharged April 1, 1919. 

Nickel, Willis, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

NoLTiNG, Henry F., '19. Enlisted October 6, 1918; commissioned first 
lieutenant. Medical Corps, M. O. T. C. ; stationed Camp Greenleaf, 
and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; discharged December 21, 1918. 



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Noble, Benjamin H., '15. Enlisted September 17, 1917, Indianapolis; 
served with Three Hundred Forty-first Ambulance Company, 
Eighty-sixth Division; promoted sergeant, first class; discharged 
September 17, 1919. 

*NoTTrNGHAM, Marsh Whitney, '19. Enlisted in United States Army 
May 8, 1917, Indianapolis; trained Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 
Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, Camp Shelby, Mississippi; assigned 
to Headquarters Company, Seventy-sixth Field Artillery, Third Di- 
vision, A. E. F. ; sailed April, 1918; killed in action July 31, 1918, 
near Eonchcres, France; buried south of Eoncheres, reburied in 
Beech Grove cemetery, Muncie, Indiana, August 1, 1921. Awarded 
Distinguished Service Cross with following citation : ' ' Corporal 
Marsh W. Nottingham, Headquarters Company, Seventy-sixth Field 
Artillery, distinguished himself by extraordinar}'^ heroism in connec- 
tion with military operations against an armed enemy of the United 
States at Eoncheres, France, on 31 July, 1918, and in recognition 
of his gallant conduct I have awarded him in the name of the 
President the Distinguished Service Cross. 

John J. Pershing, 
Commander-in-Chief. ' ' 

*Nysewander, Victor Hugo, '10. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, 
Fort Harrison, August 27, to November 27; commissioned first 
lieutenant November 27; assigned to Company C, Officers' Bat- 
talion, One Hundred Sixty-fifth Depot Brigade, Camp Travis, 
Texas; transferred to Company L, Three Hundred Fifty-ninth In- 
fantry, Ninetieth Division, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas June 20, 1918 ; 
trained in France during July and August at Chatillon-sur-Seine ; 
took part in St. Mihiel offensive; gassed September 15; for 
gallant fighting promoted to captain; October 17 placed in com- 
mand of Company K, Three Hundred Fifty-ninth Infantry, partici- 
pating in action of division until instant death on November 1, near 
Bantheville; buried in Eomagne cemetery, reburied at Plainfield, 
Indiana, September 15, 1921. 

O'Brien, Cecil Bauer, '22. Enlisted Indianapolis October 1, 1918; 
trained DePauw University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 14, 1918. 

O'Brien, Cecil S., '13. United States Navy. 

O'CONNELL, Hugh J., '19. Served in Intelligence Department, Camp 
Dodge, Iowa. 



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O'Dell Deforest, A. B., '21. Enlisted April 9, 1917, Indianapolis, in 
Troop B, First Separate Squadron Cavalry, Indiana National Guard, 
federalized August 5 and designated as Company F, One Hundred 
Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; ordered to Camp Shelby, Mississippi 
in September; sailed overseas with Thirty-eighth Division on Octo- 
ber 6, arriving at Liverpool October 18, at Southampton October 24, 
Cherbourg October 25, Ploermel October 27, Camp de Muecon No- 
vember 5; embarked from Brest December 15, arriving New York 
December 23 ; discharged January 16, 1919. 

Ogg, Paul Moore, '17. Enlisted Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
August 22, 1917; trained Fort Harrison and Camp Mills, New 
York; assigned One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second 
Division; sailed October 18, arriving in France October 31; trained 
at Camp Coetquidan until February, 1918; sent to front in Lor- 
raine sector; participated in defensive sectors of Luneville and 
Baccarat; in Champagne-Marne defensive; Aisne-Marne offensive; 
St. Mihiel offensive; in Meuse-Argonne offensive; with division 
in Army of Occupation; returned to the United States April 25; 
discharged May 9, 1919. 

OiLAR, Millard Young, '18. Entered service at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, 
March 29, 1918; transferred to Tenth Field Signal Battalion, Camp 
Coil, New Jersey, A. E. F., April 20; sailed for France August 18; 
served on front in Puvenelle sector with Seventh Division, October 
9, to November 11 ; discharged July 5, 1919. 

OOLEY, Walker Anderson, '21. Enlisted January 26, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois, Harvard Eadio 
School, New London Wireless Telephone School, U. S. N. R. F. ; 
promoted from Landsman Electrician to Eadio Electrician third 
class, January 1; discharged February 7, 1919. 

Ostrander, Joseph, '15. Enlisted in United States Army February 
9, 1918, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; assigned Three Hundred Twen- 
ty-Third Field Signal Battalion, Signal Corps, A. E. F. ; discharged 
May 23, 1919. 

Ottinger, Ray, '15. Enlisted Indianapolis May 21, 1917, Indiana Na- 
tional Guard; assigned Machine Gun Company, First Infantry, 
National Guard, designated Machine Gun Company, One Hundred 
Fifty-first Infantry; appointed sergeant July 5, 1917; discharged 
January 28, 1918. 

OvERSTREET, EussELL Hale, A. B., '19. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 



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Owen, Burl W., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Page, Richard Saul, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Bloomington, In- 
diana; Indiana University Naval unit; discharged December 23, 
1918. 

Pangborn, Earl Leroy, '22. Enlisted November 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 12, 1918. 

Paemer, Garland, '23. Enlisted in United States Naval Aviation De- 
partment May 7, 1918; attended Ground School, Pensacola, Florida; 
appointed quartermaster second class September 1 ; sailed for Eng- 
land October 31; assigned air patrol and convoy on English coast; 
ordered to Italy August 1, 1918 and designated student officer 
pilot United States Naval Aviation; promoted chief quartermaster 
Aviation December 4 ; wounded in crash ; awarded both Italian 
brevets; sailed from Genoa January 5, arriving New York January 
22; discharged March 1.5, 1919. 

Patrick, Fae W., '21. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Patton, Vernon Cole, '11. Commissioned captain, Medical Reserve 
Corps July 9, 1918, Indianapolis; reported for active duty at Port 
Riley, Kansas, August 6 ; assigned Three Hundred Twenty-first 
Sanitary Train; discharged December 10, 1918. 

Paul, Justus Williams, A. B., '15. Enlisted May 13, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harri- 
son, Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant August 15; served with Three Hundred Twenty-sixth and 
One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery until December 14; 
with First Army Headquarters Regiment until June 8, 1918, and 
Three Hundred Sixth Brigade Tank Corps until May 19, 1919; 
overseas March 14, 1918, to March 17, 1919; promoted first lieu- 
tenant; discharged May 19, 1919. 

Pavey, Eugene L., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Pavey, Jesse Ingle, '14. Enlisted October 31, 1917, Fort Thomas, 
Kentucky; commissioned second lieutenant Quartermaster Corps, 
Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Florida, July 11, 1918; promoted to 



306 BUTLER COLLEGE 

first lieutenant November 11; transferred to Aviation Signal Corps; 
promoted commanding officer Company No. 6, Second Aviation 
Institute Center, A. E. F. ; discharged March 31, 1919. 

Payne, Elmer C, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Payne, Francis William, A. B., '16. Enlisted May 10, 1917, Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; trained First Officers' Training 
Corps, Fort Harrison, May 15 to August 15, 1917; commissioned 
second lieutenant August 15; assigned Company K, Three Hundred 
Thirty-fourth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F., Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; promoted first lieutenant December 31; sailed 
September 1, 1918; stationed at Nouvic, France; returned to United 
States as divisional bayonet instructor October 9 ; detailed to 
Seventy-second Infantry, Eleventh Division, Camp Meade, Mary- 
land; discharged January 17, 1919. 

Payne, Leslie Morrell, '17. Enlisted Indianapolis, Marc> 31, 1917, 
Indiana National Guard; assigned Company D, First Infantry, 
National Guard, designated Company D, First Indiana Infantry; 
transferred November 13, 1918, Company B, Forty-ninth Infantry; 
transferred March 21, 1919, Company E, Battalion C, Army Service 
Corps, A. E. F. ; overseas October 4, 1918 to August 17, 1919 ; dis- 
charged August 23, 1919. 

Peacock, William A., '17. With Indiana National Guard when feder- 
alized August 5, 1917; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, August 27, to November 27; 
commissioned second lieutenant November 27; served with Three 
Hundred Forty-fourth Infantry and Depot Brigade, Camp Grant, 
Illinois and One Hundred Fifty-second Depot Brigade, Camp Up- 
ton, New York; discharged December 4, 1918. 

Pearson, Lyman Eees, '19. Enlisted December, 1917, Indianapolis, 
for Medical Eeserve Corps; transferred October 28, 1918 to In- 
diana University Students' Army Training Corps; no active duty. 

Peeples, Fred E., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Perkins, Earl W., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Perkins, Harry Brovpn, A. B., '20. Enlisted September 5, 1917, Indi- 



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aiiapolis; assigned Throe Hundred Thirty-fourth Infantry, Eighty- 
fourth Division, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; trained Third Officers' 
Training Camp; transferred to Camp Jackson, South Carolina; 
commissioned second lieutenant; to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Thirtieth 
Class; to Sixteenth Division, Forty-eighth Field Artillery, Battalion 
B, Camp Kearney, California; discharged December 24, 1918. 

Perry, Arthur J., '15. Commissioned captain Inspection Officer 
Eeserve Corps, November 28, 1916; ordered to active duty May 1, 
1917, as instructor in Infantry Tactics at Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, First Officers' Training Camp, May 15 to August 15; 
transferred to Eighty-fourth Division, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; 
assigned to Machine Gun Company, Three Hundred Thirty-third 
Infantry; detailed as instructor in Musketry at Infantry School of 
Arms; relieved at end of five months at own request and returned 
to Company; promoted major August 1, 1918; assigned First Bat- 
talian, Sevent3'-seventh Infantry, Fourteenth Division, Camp Cus- 
ter, Michigan; mustered out of service January 31, 1919. 

PiTTENGER, LEWIS S., '19. Enlisted Fort Thomas, Kentucky, October 
10, 1918; assigned Supply Company Quartermaster Corps; ap- 
pointed corporal November 11 ; discharged March 1, 1919. 

PiTTMAN, Frank Eugene, '17. Called into service March 5, 1917, Indi- 
anapolis, in reserve of National Guard, Indiana Signal Corps ; en 
tered Second Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, August 27 ; commissioned first lieutenant of infantry No- 
vember 27; assigned to Three Hundred Thirty-second Infantry, 
Camp Sherman, Ohio ; transferred to School of the Line, Camp Sher- 
man in January; transferred to Three Hundred Sixth Cavalry, Fort 
Clark, Texas, February 6, 1918; attended Small Arms Firing 
School, Camp Perry, Ohio, July 11, to August 11; transferred to 
Field Artillery and assigned to School of Fire, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 
August 11; discharged December 18, 1918. 

Plumb, Theodore, '19. Enlisted Indianapolis June 15, 1917; assigned 
Medical Department; detailed to Base Hospital No. 32; overseas 
December 4, 1917, to April 28, 1919; discharged May 10, 1919. 

PORTTEUS, Walter Leroy, '21. Enlisted July 18, 1918, Fort Sheridan, 
Illinois, training regiment; transferred October 1 as acting-sergeant 
to Butler College Students' Army Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Prange, Victor H., '19. Enlisted Indianapolis, United States Army, 
July 18, 1918; assigned Medical Department; detailed Base Hos- 



308 BUTLER COLLEGE 

pital No. 25 ; promoted sergeant February 1, 1919 ; discharged 
August 31, 1919. 

PUGH, Joseph Miner, '18. Enlisted Indianapolis June 15, 1917; as- 
signed Medical Department; detailed Base Hospital No. 32, A. E. 
P.; overseas December 4, 1917, to April 28, 1919; discharged Ma.y 
10, 1919. 

Putnam, Eussell Caldwell, A. B., '19. Enlisted July 18, 1918, Fort 
Sheridan, Illinois, training regiment; transferred as acting-sergeant 
to Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps October 1 ; dis- 
charged November 12, 1918. 

Eaber, Marshall, '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

*Eace, Marvin Francis, '21. Enlisted October 12, 1918, Lincoln, Ne- 
braska; University of Nebraska Students' Army Training Corps; 
died of pneumonia in Base Hospital at Lincoln, January 26, 1919 ; 
buried in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Eafferty, Eeginald W., '16. Enlisted January 5, 1918; trained 
Champaign, Illinois, Camp Dick, Texas, Kelly Field, Texas; com- 
missioned first lieutenant July 10, 1918; trained Wilbur Wright 
Field, Dayton, Ohio, Payne Field and Carlstrom Field, Florida; 
discharged January 2, 1919. 

Eagsdale, John Paul, '13. Enlisted May 11, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned first lieutenant, in- 
fantry, August 15 and ordered to immediate overseas service; 
sailed September 11; attended schools at La Valbonne, Langres, 
Le Foucquet; assigned Machine Gun Company, One Hundred Sixty- 
eighth Infantry, Forty-second Division; participated in engagements 
of Baccarat sector, Champagne-Marne defensive, Aisne-Marne of- 
fensive, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive; with Army 
of Occupation; School Detachment, University of Aix; promoted 
captain, infantry, March 13, 1919; discharged July 31, 1919. 
Awarded Distinguished Service Cross with following citation, dated 
December 27, 1918, from Captain Charles J. Eiley to commanding 
officer of Forty-second Division: 

"First Lieutenant John P. Eagsdale, during the Chateau 
Thierry drive, was in charge of a platoon of the machine gun 
company, One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry. During the day of 
July 26, 1918, in the absence of his company commander, he took 
charge of the company and moved it into position of attack under 



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terrible artillery, high explosive and gas shell bombardment, with the 
first battalion of the regiment. When the company commander 
again assumed command of the company, Lieutenant Ragsdale led 
his platoon with such skill that their casualties were at a minimum, 
and with such daring that confidence of final victory animated his 
men. 

"On July 28, on the slope overlooking the Ourcq river, he faced 
the withering fire of machine guns and artillery so to place his 
guns that he might dislodge the enemy from their strongholds 
across the river and permit the infantry to advance. He was twice 
thrown to the ground by explosive shells, but fearlessly, skillfully 
and bravely he continued the fight until the enemy was forced to 
withdraw. He crossed the river with the infantry and took up 
positions with their advanced line in order to meet the brunt of a 
counter-attack if one should materialize. Tirelessly working to pro- 
tect his men he underwent constant exposure to the enemy machine 
gun and artillery fire. Wlien the enemy counter-attacked the troops 
on his left he personally directed his fire and displayed such great 
disregard for personal safety that he inspired the entire command 
until their confidence in their strength made them fit for any 
emergency that might arise. 

' ' On July 30 he was with his platoon in the advance in an attempt 
to seize the heights beyond Sergy. He led his platoon to the right 
of the town of Sergy, across machine gun swept fields, and finally 
into action on the slopes north of the town that the enemy machine 
gun fire from the Bois de Pelier was making untenable for our 
men. Undaunted by the intensity of their fire or by the casualties 
that were being inflicted upon his men he opened up on the enemy 
and stood his ground until relief reached him under cover of dark- 
ness the night of July 30, 1918. 

"His disregard for personal danger, the tenacity with which he 
worked, the total obscurity of selfishness during all these actions 
marked him as the highest ty]3e of soldier and man. 

' ' This recommendation for D. S. C. would have been submitted im- 
mediately after the actions mentioned, but owing to assignments to 
other duties I have been unable to give the recommendation sooner. ' ' 

Raker, Louis, '19. Enlisted June 30, 1918, Indianapolis; assigned 
Headquarters Company, Chemical Warfare Service, Astoria Canton- 
ment, Long Island; promoted sergeant January 21, 1919; dis- 
charged March 21, 1919. 



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Ramsey, Alfred I., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Rankin, Glenn N., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Ransburg, Ralph Herbert, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis, 
Indiana; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Rassman, Emil Charles, Jr., '19. Enlisted April 25, 1918, Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; assigned Thirty-second Company, Eighth Bat- 
talion, One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade; discharged Feb- 
ruary 22, 1919. 

Raymond, Chester Alexander, '21. Enlisted United States Navy, 
January 21, 1918, Indianapolis; graduated from United States 
Naval Radio School, Harvard University, October 3, 1918, as second 
class radio electrician; served at United States Naval Air Station, 
Pensacola, Florida; Air Station, Boston; Navy Yard, Philadelphia; 
U. S. S. "W. N. Page"; promoted first class; discharged June 5, 
1919. 

Raymond, Henry I., '77. Commissioned first lieutenant Medical Corps, 
United States Army, October 31, 1881 ; promoted colonel May 9, 
1915; detailed department surgeon, Central Department, Chicago, 
Illinois; retired from United States Army May 24, 1919. 

Raymond, Thomas Underwood, A. B., '86; A. M., '90. Commissioned 
first lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army June 6, 1890; 
promoted colonel, 1917; assigned to Finance and Medical Supply 
Department, London, England; retired from United States Army 
June, 1920. 

Records, Charles E., '11. Transferred to Medical Department, Sep- 
tember 30, 1918, from One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade; 
served with Base Hospital No. 118 at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, and 
in France from September, 1918 to July, 1919; discharged as 
sergeant July, 1919. 

Reed, Thomas W., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Reynolds, Frederick L., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 



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Ehodes, Edward A., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

EiCHAEDSON, Lawrence L., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Richardson, Thomas Arthur, '13. Enlisted November 22, 1917, In- 
dianapolis ; served with Seventy-seventh Aero Squadron, A. E. F. ; 
trained as aerial gunner, Uxbridge Armament School, England: 
discharged December 31, 1918. 

RiCKETTS, Walter Robert, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Riedel, Wiley M., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

RiES, Oscar C, '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

RiGG, John F. Enlisted October 11, 1917, Indianapolis, for Medical 
Enlisted Reserve Corps; transferred October 28, 1918, to Indiana 
Medical College Students ' Army Training Corps ; no active duty. 

Riley, Herman M., A. B., '21. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Riley, Hurlburt T., A. B., '21. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianap- 
olis; Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Rioch, David McKenzie, A. B., '20. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Toronto, 
Canada ; in British Royal Air Service of Canada ; trained at Cadet 
Wing, Long Branch, Ontario, C Squadron, Flight 3 ; discharged De- 
cember 26, 1918. 

Roberts, Harold K., '19. Enlisted June, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15, First 
Officers' Training Camp; assigned Battery A, One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; sailed 
October 18, lauding St. Nazaire October 31; trained Camp Coet- 
quidan; ordered to front February 22, 1918; took part in engage- 
ments of Baccarat and Luneville sectors; Champagne- Marne defen- 
sive; Aisne-Marne offensive; St. Mihiel offensive; Meuse-Argonne 



312 BUTLER COLLEGE 

offensive; with Army of Occupation; returned to United States 
April 26, 1919 ; discharged May 10, 1919. 

Egberts, Jesse S., '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Egberts, Josiah Jackson, '11. Enlisted in Air Service May 2, 1917, 
Columbus Barracks, Ohio; promoted corporal, sergeant, master 
electrician, aerial flyer; trained Kelly Field, Texas, Chanute Field, 
Illinois, Boiling Field, Washington, D. C. ; injury received May 2, 
1917, prevented overseas service; discharged July 15, 1919. 

Egbinson, Daniel Sommer, A. B., 10. Enlisted February 28, 1918, 
Newport, New Hampshire, United States Navy; commissioned same 
date first lieutenant ; assigned chaplain U. S. S. " Frederick ' ' ; dis- 
charged October 2, 1919. 

*Egbison, Bruce Pettibone, A. B., '15. Prior to April 6, 1917, passed 
examination at Fort Myer, Virginia, for Officers ' Eeserve Corps and 
commissioned second lieutenant of cavalry May 1, 1917 ; ordered 
into active service May 11, as student-instructor in First Officers' 
Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; transferred to 
Camp Dodge, Iowa; assigned inspector-instructor bayonet train- 
ing. Camp Dodge ; October to March, 1918, acting-adjutant First 
Battalion Three Hundred Forty-ninth Infantry; transferred to Camp 
Perry, Ohio, for sixty days' course in small arms firing; returned 
to Camp Dodge as instructor; commissioned first lieutenant, United 
States infantry July 24; served Headquarters Company, One Hun- 
dred Sixty-third Depot Brigade until death at Camp Dodge, No- 
vember 19, 1918 ; buried in Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. 

Egbisgn, Edwin H., '17. Enlisted July 1, 1918 in Gas Defense Ser- 
vice (later known as Chemical Warfare Service), Medical Depart- 
ment; stationed at Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio, and interested 
in making "acquarated charcoal" for absorbing dangerous gasses 
and in perfecting the gas mask; discharged February 28, 1919. 

Egchford, Paul T., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
20, 1918. 

Eogers, Clarence E., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 16, 1918. 

Eogers, Hanford Newell, '97. Entered overseas service of Young 
Men's Christian Association July, 1918; sailed for France Septem- 



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ber 19, arriving at Paris October 12, at Bar-le-Due the 15th, Ippi- 
court the 18th; served three weeks at "Y" hut, Souilly; as secre- 
tary at Autun (Saone-et-Loire) in Military Police Training De- 
tachment, November 16, 1918 to April 23, 1919; manager Officers' 
Club and "Y" Hotel de Saint-Seine, Dijon, Cote-d'Or May 
1 to May 20; Paris, May 22, to June 20; St. Malo, June 21, to 
July 1 ; sailed from Brest July 1 ; arrived New York July 13, 1919. 

EOSENBAUM, William F., '22. Enlisted October 31, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

EoucH, Bayard A., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; transferred to United 
States Army General Hospital, Fort Harrison, Indiana November 
19, 1918. 

Rowley, Denton S., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; transferred United 
States Army General Hospital, Fort Harrison, Indiana December 
19, 1918. 

EuDiCEL, Edward, '20. Enlisted May 3, 1917, Indianapolis; stationed 
at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, May 3, 1917, to March 6, 1918; 
served as army nurse Depot Brigade, Medical Corps; detailed March 
6 to First Aid Clinic Dispensary, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Eyan, Oswald, '11. Enlisted October 1, 1917; commissioned captain 
January, 1918; ordered to Eighty-fourth Division School of Fire, 
West Point, Kentucky, May 1, 1918; transferred to Field Artillery 
C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, August 15 ; discharged No- 
vember 25, 1918. 

Eyker, Stanley, '21. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis, in Indiana 
National Guard, federalized August 5; trained Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana and Camp Shelby, Mississippi, with One Hun- 
dred Forty-ninth Field Hospital Sanitary Train; sailed for France 
October 6 with Thirty-eighth Division; discharged as sergeant Feb- 
ruary 3, 1919. 

Samuels, Leo T., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 10, 
1918. 

Sanders, Frank M., '20. Enlisted April 9, 1917, Indianapolis, in Troop 
B, First Separate Squadron Cavalry, Indiana National Guard, fed- 
eralized August 5 and trained in Indiana State Fair Grounds; 
transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, September 12; promoted 



314 BUTLER COLLEGE 

corporal; transferred October 6 to Battery F, One Hundred 
Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, A. E. F. ; sailed October 6, arriving 
Camp de Muecon November 5; embarked from Brest December 15, 
arriving Nevr York December 23; discharged January 16, 1919. 

Sanderson, Zachariah Chandler, '07. Enlisted July 12, 1918, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; commissioned same date first lieutenant, Sanitary 
Corps, General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry, Maryland; dis- 
charged March 18, 1919. 

SCHAD, Ralph, '22. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

SCHELL, James Layman, '22. Enlisted United States Marines April 
22, 1918, Indianapolis; trained Paris Island, South Carolina, April 
to September; at Quantico, Virginia, September to October; quali- 
fied as marksman, as physical and bayonet instructor; promoted 
sergeant in October; assigned Company H, Second Battalion, 
Eleventh Regiment, United States Marine Corps, A. E. F. ; stationed 
at Gievres; discharged August 9, 1919. 

SCHELLSCHMIDT, Eldon, '14. Enlisted October 15, 1918, Governor's 
Island, New York, as Bandmaster; discharged with the signing of 
Armistice. 

Schilling, Albert, '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
10, 1918. 

SCHLEPPY, Bloor, '12. Enlisted United States Marine Corps, May 8, 
1918, Washington, D. C. ; trained Paris Island, South Carolina until 
September, 1918; transferred to Quantico, Virginia, as sergeant; 
qualified as sharpshooter. 

ScHMALZ, John Willu.m, '19. Enlisted June 9, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, until August; served 
with One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, Camp Shelby, Mis- 
sissippi, as regimental supply sergeant; sailed overseas with Thirty- 
eighth Division, spending three months in France; returned to 
United States December 23; discharged January 16, 1919. 

ScHMALZ, Von Daniel, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

ScHMiD, Herbert William, A. B., '15. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15; commissioned second lieu- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 315 

tenant; assigned One Hundred Fifty-ninth Depot Brigade, Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; sailed overseas with Eight Hundred Fourteenth 
Pioneer Infantry, September, 1918; stationed Marseilles until De- 
cember; promoted captain; remained at Bordeaux as head of Claims 
Department until January, 1920; transferred to United States Army 
January, 1920; assigned First Division, Twenty-sixth United States 
Infantry. 

SCHOEN, Harold I., '22. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis, in In- 
diana Field Hospital No. 1; trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, In- 
diana, June to August; transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi; 
assigned to Field Hospital No. 149, Sanitary Train 113, Thirty- 
eighth Division; January 15, 1918, evacuated to General Hospital 
No. 6, Fort MePherson, Georgia; discharged August 7, 1918. 

SCHULMEYER, NoBMAN F., '22. Enlisted October 12, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Sellers, Luther Elmore, A. B., '91. Secretary Y. M. C. A. in Eng- 
land and France. 

Sellers, Maurice Blaine, '16. Eulisted April 25, 1918, Indianapolis; 
commissioned first lieutenant. Dental Corps May 21, Camp Taylor, 
Kentucky ; transferred to Post Hospital, Soutler Field, Georgia ; dis- 
charged December 21, 1918. 

Senko, John, '22. Enlisted October 21, 1918, Indianapolis, Indiana; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Seward, Hiram B., '16. Eulisted February 1, 1918, Washington, D. C. ; 
served in Ordnance Department, Washington, and New Britain, 
Connecticut, and in General Supply Depot, Quartermaster Corps, 
Boston; promoted sergeant; discharged February 14, 1919. 

Seyfried, Joseph Henry, '20. Enlisted United States Navy August 1, 
1917, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Commanding Offi- 
cers' School; commissioned ensign, Pelham Bay Naval Station; in 
service as permanent ensign aboard U. S. S. "Luce," destroyer No. 
99. 

Seyfried, Wilfred, '20. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 20, 
1918. 

Shackleford, Frank M., '22. Enlisted October 11, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 



316 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Shaler, Harrison, '20. Commissioned second lieutenant Field Artillery, 
U. S. Military Academy, November 1, 1918; unassigned. 

Sharp, Charles M., '04. Secretary Young Men's Christian Association, 
France, 1918. 

Sheedy, Herman James, A. B., '20. Enlisted July 18, 1918, Fort 
Sheridan, Illinois; served July 18 to September 16 in Company 13, 
Students ' Army Training Corps, Fort Sheridan ; transferred to First 
Sergeant Butler College Students' Army Training Corps October S 
to December 16; discharged December 16, 1918. 

Shelburne, Harry A., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Shelley, Abraham, '08. Entered Second Officers' Training Camp, 
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, August 25, 1917, as second lieutenant; 
transferred to Company K, Fiftieth Infantry, Camp Greene, North 
Carolina, December 15; to Washington, D. C. December 22; to 
Plattsburg Barracks, New York, as instructor in E. O. T. C. May 
31, 1918; to Fiftieth Infantry at Washington July 18; to Machine 
Gun Company, Curtis Bay, Maryland, August 7; to Camp Sevier, 
South Carolina, August 16; to Camp Dix, New Jersey, December 
6; discharged October 9, 1919. 

Shepherd, Ralph W., '17. Enlisted May 15, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant, 
infantry, August 15; promoted first lieutenant September 20, 1918; 
served with Tenth Machine Gun Battalion, Fifty-ninth Infantry, 
A. E. F. ; participated in Aisne-Marne offensive; St. Mihiel of- 
fensive; Mouse- Argonne offensive; discharged January 29, 1919. 

Shew ALTER, George M., '18. Commissioned first lieutenant; served 
in One Hundred Eleventh Infantry, A. E. F. ; wounded September 
27, 1918. 

Bhimer, WjhLiAM, '02. Assistant Surgeon, United States Public 
Health Service, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; instructor in But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps. 
Shimer, Willla-M Ealph, '20. Enlisted Indianapolis October 9, 1918 ; 
trained Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 19, 1918. 
Shirley, Devere E., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 



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Shirley, Max W., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
CoUoge Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Shoemaker, Harold Halsey, '20. Enlisted United States Navy July 
3, 1918, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 
Illinois; assigned Seventh Eegiment Radio Corps as landsman elec- 
trician; released from active duty January 20, 1919. 

Shortridge, Norman, '21. Enlisted June 30, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to August 15; 
assigned One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Divi- 
sion, A. E. F. ; sailed October 18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31; 
received Artillery training at Camp Coetquidan; on active front in 
Lorraine sector. Champagne, Aisne-Marne offensive, St. Mihiel of- 
fensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive; with Army of Occupation; dis- 
charged May 9, 1919. 

Shotwell, Charles S., '99. Enlisted January 8, 1918; assigned to 
Obsolete Material Branch, Bureau Aircraft Production; July 12 
commissioned first lieutenant; May 1, 1919 promoted captain; dis- 
charged September 30, 1919. 

Silver, Xerxes, A. B. '14. Enlisted September 20, 1917, Louisville, 
Kentucky; assigned Adjutant General's Department, General Per- 
sonnel Division, A. E. F. ; discharged August 26, 1919. 

Sims, Eugene E., '19. Enlisted April 16, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky June to August; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant August 17, 1918; assigned Eighteenth Field Artillery Bri- 
gade, Camp Travis, Texas; discharged January 1, 1919. 

SisSLE, Noble, '18. Enlisted September 26, 1916 in Fifteenth New 
York National Guard, mustered into Federal service July 15, 1917; 
arrived in France January 1, 1918, with first American negro regi- 
ment to land there; March 16 ordered to Champagne sector; July 
15 participated in second battle of Marne ; July 31 chosen as one of 
ten best men for officer material to be sent to Officers' Training 
School at Langres — these ten being only colored students in school 
of 2,500, all commissioned first lieutenants October, 1918, and as- 
signed to Three Hundred Seventieth United States Infantry; sailed 
from Brest February 2; discharged February 21, 1919. 

Small, Ernest A., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Smaltz, William, '19. Enlisted June 8, 1917, Indianapolis, in Troop 



318 BUTLER COLLEGE 

B, First Separate Squadron, Indiana National Guard, federalized 
August 5 and trained at Indiana State Fair Grounds ; transferred 
to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, September 12; promoted sergeant 
Eegimental Supply January, 1918 ; October 6 to Battery F, 
One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, Thirty-eighth Division, 
A. E. F. ; sailed October 6, arriving Liverpool October 18, Camp de 
Muecon November 5; embarked from Brest December 15, arriving 
New York December 23 ; discharged January 16, 1919. 

Smelser, Glen Miller, '15. Enlisted United States Navy July 27, 
1918, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 
Illinois, until December 11, 1918; served as apprentice seaman and 
fireman, third class, Hampton Roads, Virginia, and on U. S. S. 
"Kearsarge"; released February 17, 1919. 

Smith, Dallas Myrle, '16. Enlisted May 15, 1917, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana; commissioned second lieutenant, August 15; 
trained in First Officers' Training Camp May 15, to August 15; 
assigned One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Divi- 
sion, A. E. F. ; sailed October 18, landing St. Nazaire October 
31; trained Camp Coetquidan; returned to United States as instruc- 
tor in Communications, Camp Jackson, South Carolina; promoted 
first lieutenant August, 1918; discharged December 21, 1918. 

Smith, David Leslie, '19. Enlisted June 19, 1918, Indianapolis; In- 
diana University Students' Army Training Corps, Medical Depart- 
ment; discharged December 21, 1918. 

Smith, Eoscoe Conkling, '14. Secretary Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation at Montfort de Rotran, France, December 1, 1918, to May 
1, 1919; educational secretary at Lemaux May 1, to July 1, 1919. 

Smith, Roy Lee. Commissioned first lieutenant. Medical Reserve Corps, 
October 2, 1917; reported for active duty at Camp Greenleaf, 
Georgia, July 6, 1918; on active duty in United States; discharged 
August 17, 1919. 

Solomon, Reuben A., '15. Enlisted May 10, 1918, Indianapolis; com- 
missioned first lieutenant. Medical Corps, May 27; served at Base 
Hospital, Camp Dodge, Iowa, Base Hospital, Savenay, France, and 
Segregation Camp, Camp Pontanezen, Brest; promoted captain; 
discharged September 30, 1919. 

Sparks, James Vincent, '15. Enlisted July, 1917, Indianapolis; com- 
missioned first lieutenant. Dental Corps, A. E. F. ; stationed at 
Nice, France; discharged July 2, 1919. 

Spiegel, George C, '15. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Fort Benjamin 



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Harrison, Indiana; trained Second Officers' Training Camp, August 
27, to November 27; commissioned second lieutenant; assigned 
Headquarters Company, Fifth Regiment, Field Artillery, Replace- 
ment Draft, Camp Taylor, Kentucky; promoted first lieutenant 
October 23, 1918; discharged January 18, 1919. 

Spiegel, Whitney Rau, '18. Enlisted May 11, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
May 15 to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant August 15; 
sailed overseas (detached) September 11 ; ordered to Infantry 
Sehool, La Valbonne, France; assigned War Risk Bureau, Paris 
and Tours, November, 1917, to April, 1918; ordered Infantry 
School at Gondrecourt, May, 1918; assigned to Twenty-sixth Divi- 
sion in June ; to Company L, One Hundred Fourth Infantry, July 
11 ; entered Belleau Wood engagement with five officers and one 
hundred forty-one men, relieved on 25th the only officer with 
forty-one men; promoted first lieutenant; September 11 to 15 in 
St. Mihiel offensive, as regimental intelligence officer; in Meuse- 
Argonne offensive, September 15 to November 11 (One Hundred 
Fourth Infantry had received orders to attack on 11th at 1:30 
p. m.) ; at Beaumont on November 11; transferred to Company F, 
One Hundred Fourth Infantry; promoted captain, February 22, 
1919; School Detachment, London University, March 4 to July 4; 
sailed for United States July 11 ; discharged August 5, 1919. 

Bpilker, Walter H., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Spong, Philip, '20. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Spotts, John Joseph, '22. Enlisted November 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Sprague, Reid Butler, '15. Enlisted June 9, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, June to 
August, 1918; commissioned second lieutenant August 31; assigned 
to Field Artillery Replacement Draft ; discharged December 9, 1918. 

Stafford, Yale E., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Stalnaker, Cecil Edward, '20. Enlisted May, 1917, Indianapolis; 



320 BUTLER COLLEGE 

trained First Officers ' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15 ; commissioned second lieutenant Field 
Artillery, August 15; promoted first lieutenant December 31, Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; assigned Headquarters Company, Three Hun- 
dred Twenty-fifth Eegiment, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F.; 
sailed September, 1918; in France ordered to Le Mans area where 
division broken into replacement units ; discharged July 24, 1919. 

Stahl, William A., '12. Assigned September 20, 1917, to Battery B, 
Three Hundred Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, Eighty-fourth Division, 
A. E. F. ; discharged February 13, 1919. 

Staton, Glen C, '22. Enlisted October 11, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; transferred Decem- 
ber 19, 1918, to General Hospital No. 25; discharged January 16, 
1919. 

Steele, Lawrence B., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Stephenson, Ermine C, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Stephenson, Hugh M., '20. Enlisted April 7, 1917, Indianapolis, in 
Indiana National Guard, Field Hospital No. 1; trained First Offi- 
cers' Training Corps, Fort Benjamin Harrison, until June 7, when 
discharged for physical disability (broken arches) ; September 7, 
1918, drafted into limited service division of infantry, stationed at 
local draft board, East Chicago, Indiana; discharged December 
16, 1918. 

*Stephenson, MacCrea, '12. Enlisted in United States Air Service 
May 8, 1917, Indianapolis; trained at University of Ohio, and Wil- 
bur Wright Field, Ohio ; commissioned first lieutenant August, 1917, 
Dayton, Ohio; overseas in command of One Hundred Third- Aero 
Squadron, November 21, 1917; transferred to Eleventh Aero Squad- 
ron; killed in St. Mihiel drive September 18, 1918, near Jarny, 
France; buried Thiaucourt; reburied June 19, 1921, in Crown Hill 
cemetery, Indianapolis. American Legion Post No. 100, Indianap- 
olis, named Parry-Stephenson Post. 

Stephenson, Ealph Everett, '18. Enlisted September 5, 1917, Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; assigned to Company B, Three Hundred Thirty- 
fourth Infantry; transferred to Headquarters Company, Five Hun- 
dred Seventh Engineers; to Company D, Three Hundred Ninth En- 



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gineers, November 12; to Company A, Five Hundred Fifteenth 
Engineers, January 1, 1918; sailed for France May 8; trained En- 
gineer Candidate School, Langres, October 10 to December 31; 
commissioned second lieutenant Five Hundred Fifteenth Engineers, 
May 5, 1919; sailed for United States June 30; discharged August 
5, 1919. 

Sterne, Nathan, '01. Commissioned first lieutenant. Medical Corps, 
September 28, 1918; reported for active duty at Fort Riley, Kansas, 
September 30; discharged August 1, 1919. 

Stewart, Edwin W., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Stewart, Harry Soscoe, '12. Enlisted May, 1917, Fort Snelling, 
Minnesota; trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Snelling, 
May 15, to August 15; commissioned first lieutenant; transferred 
to Great Lakes Naval Station; to Camp Stanley, Texas; to Fort 
Sill, Oklahoma, where promoted captain; to Camp Stanley where as- 
signed Headquarters Company, Forty-third Artillery, as acting 
lieutenant-colonel; was judge advocate of court martial; transferred 
as officers' instructor to Fort Sam Houston, Texas; assigned to 
Twenty-fourth Infantry at Columbus, New Mexico, where resigned 
August, 1919. 

Stiles, Trever, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Stoner, George Downing, '19. Enlisted December 2, 1917, Chicago; 
assigned to Second Company, 0. R. S. D. ; transferred to Seventeenth 
Company, Third Casual Ordnance Battalion, A. E. F., near Mahun- 
sur-Yeore, France. 

Storms, Roy Basil, '18. Commissioned first lieutenant, Medical Re- 
serve Corps, April 27, 1917; reported for active duty at Fort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana, May 20; promoted captain September 
29 ; assigned Three Hundred Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth 
Division, A. E. F. ; discharged as captain, Medical Corps, July 14, 
1919. 

Stover, Harney Watson, '21. Enlisted in United States Navy, June 7, 
1918, Indianapolis; trained at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 
lUmois; promoted to seaman first class, September 1, to gunners' 
mate third class; transferred to League Island, Pennsylvania; 
then to Brest Air Station, France; released January 17, 1919. 



322 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Street, Acil G., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Strickland, Clarence R., '15. Commissioned captain, Medical Corps, 
August, 1918, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; assigned to 
General Hospital 9, Lakewood, New Jersey; promoted major; dis- 
charged November, 1918. 

Stultz, Basil G., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Stump, Delbert Eeisner, '19. Enlisted April 20, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, May 15 to August 15; assigned Battery E, One Hundred 
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F.; sailed 
October 18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31; trained at Camp 
Coetquidan; appointed corporal; engaged in Champagne-Marne 
defensive, Aisne-Marne offensive, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Ar- 
gonne offensive; gassed May 27, 1918; with Army of Occupation; 
discharged May 9, 1919. 

Sturgeon, Irwin W., '15. Enlisted February 25, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned Sixth Field Signal Battalion, Sixth Division, A. E. F.; 
sailed overseas July 5, reaching France July 22; engaged in Vosges 
sector and in Meuse-Argonne offensive; returned to United States 
June 10; discharged June 19, 1919. 

SuDHOFP, Edmund S., '22. Enlisted October 3, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Sumeelin, Harold S., '15. Enlisted United States Navy March, 1917; 
trained Naval School, Washington, D. C. and Rockefeller Institute, 
New York ; assigned U. S. S. " Georgia, ' ' rank of lieutenant, junior 
grade, later to rank of senior grade; served two years on Pacific 
Coast; not released. 

Sumner, Claude Leslie, '21. Enlisted June 8, 1917, Indianapolis, in 
Fourth Indiana Infantry; organization federalized August 5 and 
designated as One Hundred Thirty-ninth Field Artillery and trans- 
ferred, in September, to Camp Shelby, Mississippi; assigned to 
Band Section, Headquarters Company, Thirty-eighth Division, A. 
E. F. ; sailed for France via England October 6, reaching Camp de 
Muecon November 5; embarked from Brest December 15, reaching 
New York December 23; discharged January 16, 1919. 



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SUSSMAN, Harry, '19. Enlisted United States Army May 1, 1918, In- 
dianapolis; assigned Fifty-second Infantry, Medical Corps, A. E. 
F.; trained Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Camp Wadsworth, North 
Carolina, Camp Forest, Georgia. 

SwAiM, George O., '12. Enlisted June 5, 1918, Indianapolis; trained 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana; assigned as sergeant to Medical 
Corps, Base Hospital No. 32, A. E. F. ; discharged May 10. 1919. 

Swan, George A., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Swearingen, Herbert R., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Tarleton, Owen H., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 
10, 1918. 

Taylor, Charles Burr, A. B., '95; A. M., '96. Assigned to Fort 
Riley, Kansas; commissioned captain, Medical Corps, July 16, 1917; 
discharged December 23, 1918. 

Tharp, Harold Bland, '11. Enlisted November 6, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned Officers ' Training Camp, Motor Transport Corps, Camp 
Josoph E. Johnston, Florida ; discharged December 10, 1918. 

Thayer, Stanley Stillwell, '13. Enlisted December 27, 1917, in 
Ordnance Department; sailed overseas August 31, 1918; served 
Camp Hancock, Georgia, Washington, D. C, Winchester, England; 
assigned to office of chief ordnance officer. Tours, France ; pro- 
moted sergeant first class; discharged September 4, 1919. 

Thomas, George Cullen, A. B., '13. Enlisted Indianapolis August 13, 
1918; assigned Field Artillery, C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky; 
discharged November 26, 1918. 

Thomas, Gordon A., '15. Commissioned second lieutenant, Medical 
Corps, May 29, 1918, Indianapolis; assigned Naval Hospital, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania; promoted first lieutenant February 17, 1919; 
released June 1, 1919. 

Thomas, Gordon R. Enlisted December 2, 1917, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana, for Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; transferred to 
Indiana College of Medicine, Students' Army Training Corps, Oc- 
tober 28, 1918; no active duty. 

Thompson, Ray S., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 



324 BUTLER COLLEGE 

TiBBOTT, Frederick Merrill, '04. Enlisted August, 1918, Boston, 
Massachusetts; commissioned August, 1918, first lieutenant. Fourth 
Regiment Engineers, Camp Humphreys, Virginia; discharged De- 
cember 13, 1918. 

TiERNAN, Miles G., '20. Enlisted May 3, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Kentucky, June 29, 1918 
to August 31, 1918; commissioned second lieutenant August 31; 
assigned to Battery B, Thirteenth Eegiment Field Artillery, E. D., 
Camp Jackson, South Carolina; transferred to School of Fire, Fort 
Sill, Oklahoma. 

TiNDALL, Paul Raphael, '09. Enlisted December, 1917, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana; trained Medical Officers' Training Corps, Fort 
Oglethorpe, Georgia, May 15 to July 26, 1918; commissioned Janu- 
ary, 1918, first lieutenant. Medical Corps; in France detailed to 
C. O. Evacuation Ambulance Company No. 12; discharged May 
10, 1919. 

ToMLiNSON, Ralph Rtland, '11. Enlisted July 22, 1918, Shelbyville, 
Indiana; trained Camp Taylor, Kentucky, July 22, to August 14; 
assigned Battery B, Three Hundred Twenty-sixth Field Artillery, 
Radio Service, Eighty-fourth Division, A. E. F. ; trained Camp de 
Souge; returned to Newport News, Virginia, February 15; dis- 
charged February 27, 1919. 

*TooN, Henry Clarence, '15. Enlisted United States Navy, December 
7, 1917, Indianapolis; trained Great Lakes Naval Station, 
Illinois; assigned seaman in Radio Service of U. S. Navy; died of 
pneumonia January 20, 1918; buried in Buck Creek Chapel ceme- 
tery near Julietta, Indiana. 

ToTTEN, Orene M., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis, In- 
diana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Tracy, Earl W., '22. Enlisted October 14, 1918, Indianapolis, In- 
diana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 6, 1918. 

Tracy, Julius Ross, '08. Enlisted October 15, 1917, Chicago; com- 
missioned first lieutenant, Medical Corps, A. E. F., August, 1918; 
promoted captain March 1, 1919; assigned Hospital Unit No. 1; 
awarded citation of city of Langres, France; discharged July 9, 
1919. 

Trone, Donaldson Greene, '15. Enlisted June 17, 1916, Battery A, 
Indiana National Guard, for service on Mexican Border; selected 



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from National Guard to attend Officers' Training Camp, Tort Ben- 
jamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15, 1917; commis- 
sioned captain August 15; assigned to Three Hundred Twenty-sev- 
enth Field Artillery, Camp Taylor, Kentucky as battery commander, 
August, 1917, to February, 1918; as assistant division adjutant, 
Eighty-fourth Division, Camp Taylor, February to June, 1918; 
as personnel adjutant. Three Hundred Ninth Ammunition Train, 
Camp Sherman, Ohio, June to August; as commanding officer and 
assistant professor, Military Science, Ohio State University, August, 
1918, to March, 1919; assistant adjutant. Sixth Military District 
Headquarters, Columbus, Ohio, March until date of discharge, May 
15, 1919. 

Troutman, Henry H., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis, 
Indiana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

TuTTLE, Alva M., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis, In- 
diana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

Tweedy, Boss J., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis, Indiana; 
trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Ullery, Flavius, '21. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps, Naval Eeserve Unit; not 
released. 

Unger, Wood, A. B., '12. Enlisted August 27, 1917, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana ; trained Second Officers ' Training Camp, August 
27, to November 27; commissioned first lieutenant; transferred to 
Camp Travis, Texas; assigned Company H, Three Hundred Fifty- 
seventh Infantry, Ninetieth Division, A. E. F. ; sailed June, 1918; 
participated in engagements of Villers-en-Haye sector, Puvenelle 
sector, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse-Argonne offensive ; of a total of 
seventy-two days on the front, out of shellings two days; wounded 
September 16, evacuated to hospital in Paris until October 14: 
with Army of Occupation; returned to United States in July; dis- 
charged July 17, 1919. 

Vance, Charles Harmon, '13. Enlisted May 11, 1917, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, Indiana; trained First Officers' Training Camp, May 
15, to August 15; commissioned second lieutenant August 15; 
transferred Camp Taylor, Kentucky; promoted first lieutenant De- 
cember 31; assigned Three Hundred Thirty-third Infantry, Eighty- 



326 BUTLER COLLEGE 

fourth Division, A. E. F. ; sailed September, 1918; in France or- 
dered to Le Mans area; returned to United States in charge of 
One Hundred Ninth Guard Company; discharged July 29, 1919. 

Vandewark, Floyd F., A. B., '17. Enlisted August 15, 1918, Indi- 
anapolis; trained Field Artillery C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky; discharged December 15, 1918. 

Van Dxjyn, Lawrence F., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 10, 1918. 

Vehling, Egbert Henry, '20. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Lafayette, 
Indiana; Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 19, 1918. 

Wadsworth, Dyal, '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Wagoner, Edward Stephenson, '21. "With Battery E, First Indiana 
Field Artillery when federalized August 5, 1917, and designated 
One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division; 
trained First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, 
Indiana, and Camp Mills, New York; sailed with division October 
18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31; trained at Camp Coetquidan; 
promoted corporal November 1 ; ordered to front in Lorraine sec- 
tor February 22, 1918; to Champagne front July 4-18; to Chateau 
Thierry July 23-30; wounded July 30 and evacuated to hospital 
from July 30 to date of discharge, March 8, 1919. 

Wagoner, Frederick E., '19. With Battery E, First Indiana Field 
Artillery when federalized August 5, 1917, and designated One 
Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery; trained First Officers' Training 
Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15; 
sailed with Forty-second Division October 18, landing at St. Na- 
zaire October 31; trained Camp Coetquidan; ordered to the front 
in Lorraine sector near Nancy, February 22, 1918; sent to Saumur 
Artillery School, April 25, to August 1; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant; assigned to Fifth Corps of the Eighth Army of France; in 
October transferred to Battery E, Fifty-seventh Coast Artillery; in 
action in the Argonne near Meuse; sailed for United States Feb- 
ruary 4; discharged February 24, 1919. 

Wales, Von Curtis, '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 



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Walker, Carl T., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 16, 
1918. 

Walker, Ernest Emery, '09. Enlisted United States Navy, Indianap- 
olis, August 31, 1918; trained Naval Training School, Great Lakes, 
Illinois; commissioned ensign Naval Flying Service, January 13, 
1919; released March 4, 1919. 

Walker, Frank M., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Walker, William F., '19. Enlisted May 18, 1918, Columbus Barracks, 
Ohio; assigned to Headquarters Company, Three Hundred Fifty- 
first Field Artillery, A. E. F. ; overseas June 19, 1918, to February 
16, 1919; appointed corporal; discharged March 13, 1919. 

Wallace, Eoger W., A. B., '09. Enlisted March 9, 1918, Indianapolis; 
assigned, March 23, to Fortieth Balloon Company, Camp John Wise, 
Texas as personnel sergeant-major; to Seventh School for Personnel 
Officers, Camp Travis, Texas; transferred September 13, to Field 
Artillery C. O. T. S. as sergeant Twentieth Training Battery; dis- 
charged November 28, 1918. 

Wallace, William, '87. Graduated from United States Military 
Academy, West Point, New York, '91 ; served as first lieutenant in 
Spanish- American war; twice assigned to service in Phillippine 
Islands; in World war assigned as colonel to Three Hundred Thirty- 
second United States Infantry, Eighty-third Division, A. E. F. ; 
sailed in June, 1918; ordered to Italy, commanding only combatant 
American regiment on Italian front; participated in battle on 
Piave River; returned to United States April 14, 1919; awarded 
the order of SS. Maurice and Philip, and the British Distinguished 
Service Cross. 

Walton, Frank J., '19. Enlisted November 19, 1917, Los Angeles, 
California; assigned to Company F, Twenty-third Engineers, Camp 
Meade, Maryland, December 3 to March 30, 1918; sailed March 
30; company received citation for work from April 18 to October 
18; sent to front with First Army in Argonne sector, October 28, 
working to keep roads open until November 11; transferred to Dan- 
sur-Meuse for road work until December 21, to Langres until May, 
when detailed mess sergeant; evacuated to hospital January 24 to 
March 26, in France; to Camp Kearney Hospital, California, until 
date of discharge, June 13, 1919. 



328 BUTLER COLLEGE 

Wamsley, John Lewis, '22. Enlisted December 14, 1917, Indianapolis; 
trained March to June, 1918, in United States School of Military- 
Aeronautics, Illinois; commissioned second lieutenant flight com- 
mander; transferred Rockwell Field, California, June 27 to October 
1, to Ream, October 1 to December 30, to Otay Mesa Field, Decem- 
ber 30 to March 1; promoted pilot Air Service, United States 
Army; discharged March 4, 1919. 

Ward, Paul William, A. B., '14. Enlisted January 23, 1918, New 
York City; trained United States School Military Aeronautics, 
Princeton, New Jersey, March 2 to May 4; commissioned second 
lieutenant, Air Service, Reserve Military Aviation, at March Field, 
California, August 31 ; detailed instructor in Pursuit Gunnery, 
Rockwell Field, California; discharged January 8, 1919. 

Ward, Philmer J., '22. Enlisted October 8, 1918, Indianapolis, Indiana; 
trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Weathers, Cecil William, '14. Enlisted May 31, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois, September 
to December; appointed landsman electrician. Radio Department, 
Seventh Regiment, U. S. N. R. F. ; released December 30, 1918. 

Weaver, Robert B., '22. Enlisted October 12, 1918, Indianapolis, In- 
diana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; dis- 
charged December 10, 1918. 

*Weeder, Harry Lemuel, '22. Enlisted March 8, 1918, United States 
Army, Greenfield, Indiana; trained in aviation, Kelly Field, 
Texas; discharged February 1, 1919; killed in Motor Transport 
Service, Fort Harrison, Indiana, May 23, 1919, and buried in 
Greenfield, Indiana. 

Weer, Paul Wiley, A. B., '08. Enlisted June 15, 1917, Indianapolis, 
Indiana; trained Fort Harrison, Indiana; assigned to Base Hos- 
pital No. 32, Medical Corps, A. E. F., December 4 to April 26; dis- 
charged May 10, 1919. 

Weesner, Eugene Mark, '20. Enlisted May 8, 1918, Jefferson Bar- 
racks, Missouri; sent to Camp Johnston, Florida, May 11; as- 
signed Quartermaster Corps, Three Hundred Fourteenth Butchery 
Company, A. E. F. ; sailed overseas June 29 ; stationed at Gievres, 
France, Loire-et-Cher, July 18, 1918, to May 30, 1919; returned 
to United States June 26; discharged July 3, 1919. 

Welch, Lawrence Joseph, '20. Enlisted United States Army May 
12, 1917, Indianapolis; trained First Officers' Training Camp, 



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Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to August 15, and 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; commissioned second lieutenant July 
10; assigned Twenty-second Engineers, U. S. A.; discharged De- 
cember 23, 1918. 

Welker, Fred B., '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Wells, Orville, '20. Enlisted Fort Thomas, Kentucky, December 11, 
1917; assigned Wagon Company, Auxiliary Remount Depot 307, 
Quartermaster Corps; discharged February 14, 1919. 

Wheeler, Verlin Curtis, '16. Enlisted Greenfield, Indiana, May 
17, 1918; assigned Fifteenth Company, Transportation Corps; 
transferred Thirteenth Company January 10, 1919; overseas July 
31, 1918, to August 26, 1919; appointed corporal November 19, 
1918, sergeant June 28, 1919; discharged September 2, 1919. 

Whitaker, Edwin Shay, '20. With Battery E, First Indiana Field 
Artillery when federalized August 5, 1917, and designated One 
Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery; trained First Officers' Training 
Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15, to August 15; 
sailed with Forty-second Division October 18, landing October 31, 
at St. Nazaire; trained Camp Coetquidan; ordered to front in 
Lorraine sector February 22, 1918; in engagements of Cham- 
pagne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne ; transferred from 
Battery E to Headquarters Company, One Hundred Fiftieth Regi- 
ment, July, 1918; discharged March 28, 1919. 

Whitaker, John A., '22. Enlisted October 4, 1918, Indianapolis, 
Indiana; trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; 
discharged December 6, 1918. 

White, Orris Otto, A. B., '06. Enlisted June 1, 1918, LaCrosse, 
Wisconsin, in Y. M. C. A. Service; attended Princeton University 
Y. M. C. A. Training Camp; assigned secretary July 14, 1918, 
Montiers-sur-Saulx, France; attached to United States Army, 
Third Cavalry, A. B. C. D. Troops; discharged July 12, 1919. 

Whitehead, Roy E. Enlisted November 22, 1917, Fort Benjamin Har- 
rison, Indiana, for Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps; transferred to 
Indiana Medical College Students ' Army Training Corps October 28, 
1918; no active duty. 

Whiteside, Robert R., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 



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Wicker, Gerald, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 

College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged December 6, 
1918. 
WiEDRicH, William Walter, A. B., '15. Enlisted Indiana National 
Guard, April 20, 1914, Indianapolis; trained Camp Morse, Texas, 
January 6, to April 19, 1918 ; commissioned second lieutenant, 
Signal Corps, April 19; assigned to Seventh Depot Brigade, One 
Hundred Fourteenth Field Signal Battalion, A. E. F. 

WiESE, Eaymond, '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Franklin, Indiana; 
Franklin College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember, 1918. 

Wild, Forrey N., '19. Enlisted in May, 1917, Indianapolis; trained 
First Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 
May 15, to August 15; assigned Headquarters Company, One Hun- 
dred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; 
sailed October 18, landing at St. Nazaire October 31 ; trained Camp 
Coetquidan; sent to front February 22, 1918, in Lorraine sector; 
participated in engagements in Champagne sector; Aisne-Marne 
offensive; St. Mihiel offensive; Meuse-Argonne offensive; with 
Army of Occupation; returned to United States in April, 1919; 
discharged May 10, 1919. 

Wild, Egbert S., '19. Enlisted June 24, 1918, Philadelphia Naval 
Home ; trained Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Naval Unit ; 
assigned Flight 31, Aviation Detachment, United States Navy; ap- 
pointed C. Q. M. (A) ; discharged February 2, 1919. 

Wiles, Albert D., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis, Indiana: 
trained Butler College Students ' Army Training Corps ; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Willla-MS, Arthur L., '22. Enlisted October 5, 1918, Indianapolis; 
trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; appointed 
sergeant-major; discharged December 16, 1918. 

Williams, Clayton E., '16. Enlisted June, 1917, Plattsburg, New 
York, in Y. M. C. A. Service; in France October 1, 1917, to June 
5, 1918, with Second Division; enlisted in Army June 18, 1918, 
Paris; commissioned second lieutenant. United States Air Service. 

Williams, Francis M., '14. Enlisted May 11, 1918; commissioned on 
that date first lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Naval Re- 
serve Corps; assigned U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania; released January 25, 1919. 

Williams, Lawrence L., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; 



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trained Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged 
December 6, 1918. 

Williams, Percy Barton, A. B., '97. Secretary Young Men's Christian 
Association, March to September, 1919; stationed at Chaumont, 
Brest and Soissons, Franco. 

Wills, James Herbert, '20. Enlisted Indianapolis March 8, 1918; 
assigned One Thousand One Hundred Second Aerial Replacement 
Squadron; transferred Four Hundred Eighty-third Aerial Squadron 
December 23, 1918; overseas June 22, 1918, to February 8, 1919; 
discharged February 28, 1919. 

Wilson, Desha Tadema, '20. Enlisted February 6, 1918, Indianapolis; 
graduated from School of Military Aeronautics, Univer- 
sity of Illinois, October 5, 1918; from School of Fire for Light 
Artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, December 13, 1918 ; commissioned 
second lieutenant, Air Service, December 14 ; assigned to Observers ' 
School, Post Field, Oklahoma; discharged May 15, 1919. 

Wilson, Frank E., '22. Enlisted October 10, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Wilson, Otto, '06. Enlisted and commissioned June 3, 1918, Wash- 
ington, D. C. first lieutenant, Chemical Warfare Service, Gas De- 
fense Division; in Central America and West Indies engaged in 
securing cocoanuts and palm nuts for constructing gas masks; dis- 
charged March 31, 1919. 

Winders, Charles Garrison, '18. Enlisted April 14, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained with Field Artillery, C. O. T. S., Camp Taylor, Ken- 
tucky, July 12 to October 16, 1918; commissioned second lieutenant 
October 16; assigned to Second Regiment, Field Artillery Replace- 
ment Draft; discharged December 21, 1918. 

Winks, Mary Loraine (Mrs. A. H. Russell), A. B., '15. Appointed 
November 21, 1917, Washington, D. C, File Clerk, Ordnance De- 
partment, Administration Division, A. E. F. ; sailed September 28, 
1918; assigned to Engineering Corps, Ordnance Department, Tours, 
France, Headquarters of Service of Supply; returned to United 
States June 18, 1919. 

Wise, Glen Harold, A. B., '15. Enlisted April 3, 1918, Portland, 
Maine; promoted sergeant July 1, 1918; assigned Headquarters 
Company, Seventy-second Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, A. E. F. ; 
discharged April 17, 1919. 

Wise, Verl A., '15. Enlisted September 4, 1918, Chicago; trained Camp 



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Grant, Illinois; assigned Adjutant Detachment; discharged Feb- 
ruary 14, 1919. 

WiTHAM, Jtjlian O., '22. Enlisted November 7, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

WiTHERSPOON Frederick, 'i8. With Battery E, First Indiana Field 
Artillery when federalized August 5, 1917 and later designated 
One Hundred Fiftieth Field Artillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. 
F. ; trained Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to August 
15; sailed October 18, landing October 31, at St. Nazaire; promoted 
corporal November 1; trained Camp Coetquidan; ordered to front 
February 22, 1918, in Lorraine sector; selected one of sixteen to 
return back of line as instructor in topography to fresh troops, 
Camp de Valdabon, May 28, 1918; August to November Saumur 
Artillery School; promoted lieutenant; returned to One Hundred 
Fiftieth Regiment in Army of Occupation; returned to United 
States April 26; discharged May 10, 1919. 

Wood, Ashton Cook, '21. Enlisted United States Army July 11, 1918, 
Indianapolis; trained Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; promoted ser- 
geant September 15; transferred to Field Artillery C. O. T. S., 
Camp Taylor, Kentucky, October 2; assigned Eighth Battalion, 
Twenty-second Training Battery; discharged November 28, 1918. 

Wood, Harry H., '19. Enlisted March 18, 1918 and trained at Camp 
Taylor, Kentucky; assigned Sixth Company, Fourth Regiment, Air 
Service Mechanics, A. E. F.; in France July 10 to June 29, 1919; 
discharged July 12, 1919. 

Woodruff, Harold C, '22. Enlisted October 19, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged Decem- 
ber 6, 1918. 

Woods, Merrill Jay, A. B., '20. Enlisted August 17, 1917, Indianap- 
olis; trained Camp Shelby, Mississippi; promoted sergeant, One 
Hundred Twenty-ninth Ordnance Depot Company, Camp Shelby, 
Mississippi; discharged February 7, 1919. 

WOOLLING, Kenneth K., '12. Enlisted February 8, 1918; trained 
Ground School Military Aeronautics, Columbus, Ohio; transferred 
to Kelly Field, Texas; commissioned second lieutenant; discharged 
April 3, 1919. 

WORTMAN, Lavstrence G., '22. Enlisted October 7, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 



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Wright, Barton W., '22. Enlisted October 2, 1918, Indianapolis; 
Butler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged De- 
cember 6, 1918. 

Wright, Hugh, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Wright, Kenneth, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Wyatt, Dewey, '22. Enlisted October 9, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 
College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 
1918. 

Wylie, Charles B., '22. Enlisted October 1, 1918, Indianapolis; But- 
ler College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 
6, 1918. 

Yeoman, Stephen S., '03. Training at Columbia University to serve 
as overseas secretary, Young Men's Christian Association, when 
Armistice signed. 

Young, William T., '19. Enlisted May 22, 1916, Indianapolis, in Bat- 
tery A, Indiana Field Artillery, mustered into federal service 
August 5 and later designated One Hundred Fiftieth Field Ar- 
tillery, Forty-second Division, A. E. F. ; trained First Officers' 
Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 15 to 
August 15; sailed with division October 18, landing at St. Nazaire 
October 31; trained Camp Coetquidan; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant March 15, 1918 and transferred to One Hundred Forty- 
seventh Field Artillery, Thirty-second Division; promoted first 
lieutenant September 5 ; participated in engagements in Toul sec- 
tor, Alsace sector, Aisne-Marne offensive, Oisc-Aisne offensive, 
Meuse-Argonne offensive ; with Army of Occupation ; discharged 
July 31, 1919. 

* * Decoration 
With the approval of the commander-in-chief of the American 
Expeditionary Forces in France, the marshal of France, commander- 
in-chief of the Armies of the East, cites in the orders of the Army: 
Lieutenant William T. Young, of the One Hundred Forty-seventh 
American Field Artillery — In the course of the operations of the 
Thirty-second Infantry Division, U. S. Army, from August 28 to 
September 1, 1918, which resulted in the capture of Juvigny, France, 
he served as adjutant to the officers in charge of liaison between the 



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infantry and the artillery of the division. He exposed himself fre- 
quently to the fire of the enemy in order to learn by observa- 
tion what support to demand of the artillery. His indefatigable 
energy and his sure judgment were of an inestimable value to his 
chief. 

General Headquarters, January 23, 1919. 

Marshal Petain. " 
"United States Army 
First Lieutenant William T. Young, One Hundred Forty-seventh 
Field Artillery, for distinguished and exceptional gallantry at 
Juvigny, France, on 28 August, 1918, in the operations of the 

American Expeditionary Forces 
in testimony thereof, and as an expression of appreciation thereof, 
I award him this 

Citation. 

John J. Pershing, 
Commander-in-Chief. ' ' 
March 22, 1919. 

Tovan, Mark, '22. Enlisted October 26, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 

College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 

1918. 
ZiNK, Frank J., '22. Enlisted October 18, 1918, Indianapolis; Butler 

College Students' Army Training Corps; discharged December 6, 

1918. 
ZiNKAN, Thomas Earl. Enlisted October 18, 1917 ; trained Camp 

Crane, Pennsylvania; served in Hospital Unit No. 103, Medical 

Corps, A. E. F. ; discharged April 2, 1919. 



War is a crucible through which men pass into 
larger and nobler lives. It brings out the 
courage to die for one's ideals; it overcomes 
the fear of death and leads us into a higher 
appreciation of all that is good and true, a 
more exalted patriotism and a firmer faith in 
God. 

— Harrison Cale, '07 



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